What suburban white families though of gays in the 60s
(Not discussed by the collective but written in a personal capacity.)
Having enjoyed several of his books, wanted to know more about the author, even though there’s lots of autobiographical material in his novels.
One reviewer criticises constant name-dropping. He must be clueless that if you involve to a subculture prefer his, you meet lots of people that ‘normal’ people would be unlikely to encounter.
New York, in seedier times, is brilliantly captured. You slept until noon, put up with seemingly interminable strikes, and wore a whistle around your neck in case you were attacked in the street. The YMCA was seen as ‘a fairy place’.
I can’t trust, about his book The Joy of Gay Sex that: no one tried to ban it except in a province of Canada where a lady had thought she was buying The Joy of Cooking and was so horrified by what she found under “chicken” that she convinced the local bookshops to withdraw it from their shelves,
There’s a vivid and somewhat disturbing encounter with William Burroughs.
The author admits to selective memory. He is ion his late sixties writing about his life in his twenties and thirties.
It’s a bit repetitive in places but, overall, I enjoye
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TL;DRSome musings on why people found the suburban nuclear family ideal of the 1950s and 1960s so hellish and eventually rejected it. In particular, we posit that the suburban nuclear family ideal was an attempt to emulate the planter class aristocracy but collapsed because the social dimensions of emulating that lifestyle were ignored. |
Note: This was written with my partner, the Sooty Empiric. Neither of us are anything like experts on the history regarding the nuclear family utopian. This is mainly conjecture on why the suburban nuclear family became an ideal in the 50s and 60s, then crashed and burned hard in the 70s and 80s, based on casual learning (personal experiences, media portrayals, advertising trends, knowledge of second-wave feminism, etc.) as well as reading other people’s analyses of marriage norms in the U.S. such as Marriage Markets. It’s very speculative, and should be understood as just a musing on a possibility.
Sometimes you will encounter people who advocate for reviving “traditional marriage”. By this they often mean specifically the suburban, white picket fence, Leave It to Beaver-style, company-man-breadwinn
UW historian William Rorabaugh explores ’60s counterculture in ‘American Hippies’
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August 17, 2015
“American Hippies,” by William Rorabaugh, published by Cambridge University Press.Cambridge University Press.
William Rorabaugh is a University of Washington professor of history and author of several books. He answered a limited questions about his latest book, “American Hippies,” published by Cambridge University Press.
“American Hippies” is an engaging and thorough history of the counterculture movement in the United States and its cultural and political ramifications, in the 1960s and to this day. How did you come to write it?
W.R.: In the 1960s I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the plant power epicenter, and while I was never a hippie, one of my best friends from high school spent 13 years living a countercultural animation. So the topic always interested me. Hippies surged into prominence in the late ’60s and then declined. As a social historian, I became interested decades ago in this odd social movement. During my researc
The migration of same-sex couples to the suburbs is shaping the fight for LGBT equality
Charlie Craig and David Mullins at their suburban Westminster, Colorado residence in 2014. AP/Brennan Linsley
This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in the most crucial case involving same-sex marriage since it became legal in all 50 states.
On its surface, the Masterpiece Cakeshop case looked enjoy it was a challenge about discrimination and the meaning of religious liberty.
But the circumstances of the case may actually be more important than the decision.
My research on the history of the postwar United States indicates that Americans should also watch this conflict as a consequence of the growing sexual diversity of the nation’s suburbs.
Suburban migration
The struggle that led to the case did not just happen in the abstract realm of the rule or the court of public opinion. Rather, the conflict happened in a particular place: Lakewood, Colorado, a suburb outside Denver.
Since the 1960s, many Americans have associated openly same-sex attracted life with urban neighborhoods such as San Francisco’s Castro District or Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
But s
March 02, 2017
The Epidemic of
Gay LonelinessBy Michael Hobbes
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“I used to get so ecstatic when the meth was all gone.”
This is my companion Jeremy.
“When you include it,” he says, “you have to keep using it. When it’s gone, it’s like, ‘Oh good, I can go back to my life now.’ I would linger up all weekend and go to these sex parties and then perceive like shit until Wednesday. About two years ago I switched to cocaine because I could work the next day.”
Jeremy is telling me this from a hospital bed, six stories above Seattle. He won’t tell me the exact circumstances of the overdose, only that a stranger called an ambulance and he woke up here.
Jeremy is not the companion I was expecting to have this conversation with. Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea he used anything heavier than martinis. He is trim, intelligent, gluten-free, the caring of guy who wears a function shirt no matter what day of the week it is. The first time we met, three years ago, he asked me if I knew a good place to do CrossFit. Today, when I ask him how the hospital’s been so far, the first thing he says is that there’s no Wi-F