1967- "spring of sexual freedom" precedes summer of love

1967 SF hippies 4 sexual freedom


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1967: beginning of Rolling Stone magazine.
1967 January: "Human Be-In" rally/concert at
SF's Golden Gate Park attracts
20,000 to 50,000 hippies, radicals, and music fans.
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1967 March 4: Australia:
Sydney Morning Herald publishes 3,000-word article on
SF Bay Area "Hippies",
by expat Australian rock-journalist Lilian Roxon:
" .... The current big Hippie causes are best summed up
by the three most frequently worn buttons.
They are "Impeach Reagan",
"Legalise Marijuana",
and "I'm for Sexual Freedom"....
Maybe there is an overdue emphasis on sexual freedom
and drug experimentation,
but that is common to many adolescent groups.
Essentially Hippies are joyful youngsters...."

[ Notes:
(1) At that time, Ronald Reagan was Governor of California;
(2) In her own youth, Roxon had participated in a Sydney bohemian movement called "the Push"; contemporary with U.S. Beats.
(3) The first known "sexual freedom" buttons appeared at UC-Berkeley, circa 1966-67;
originally sponsored by the Campus Sexual Rights Forum, a student group advocating civil liberties in sexual matters.
When the designing and selling of buttons became (mildly) profitable, the mini-business spun off to become a smaller "group", jokingly called the Friends of the Bavarian Illuminati (or similar title); whose catchy slogans included
"Legalize Spiritual Discovery",
"If it moves, fondle it",
and "Lennon saves."
Later on, Timothy Leary was wearing such an LSD button
when he announced the founding
of a "League for Spritual Discovery".
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc? ]
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1967 March: SF: The Citizens News stops publishing. [WOT]
1967, circa March: Berkeley: banana-peel hoax.
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1967, spring-summer: SF: A popular song advises,
"When you come to San Francisco,
be sure to wear some flowers in your hair..."
Around 75,000 youths arrive for "The Summer of Love," overcrowding the Haight-Ashbury district. [Berkeley At War]
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1967, summer: founding of the Berkeley Free Church.
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