Hippie culture presented by: Karen niño Calo Pérez Giovanny rodríguez Jessica Sánchez Jennifer enciso Angie Riaño

hippie culture He was a youth movement that took place in the last years of the 1960s and was characterized by nonviolent anarchy, concern for the environment and the rejection of Western materialism. The hippies formed a politically daring and antiwar counterculture, and artistically prolific in the U.S. and Europe. His style and colorful psychedelic was inspired by hallucinogenic drugs such as lysergic acid (LSD) and embodied in fashion, graphic arts and music of singers like Janis Joplin or bands like Love, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Pink Floyd.

Style and behavior: The hippie icon is often characterized with a man with long hair and beard much longer than what is considered "normal" for the time. Both sexes tended to let their hair long and imitate the style of African-American. Most of the society of the time, considered these "long hairs" as an offense, or as synonymous with dirt, or a woman thing. He wears long hair, for both sexes and their particular way of dressing, acting as a sign of belonging and a sample of his rebellious attitude and countercultural. Other features associated with them were: - Clothes of bright colors. - Clothes faded. - Shirts long, long skirts, pants with cuffs like "elephant foot". - Indian and African clothing. - Symbols or drawings as the flower of the American aborigines.. - Many were fashioned his own clothes as a protest against consumer culture. - Use of incense and recovery of the natural values ​​of the plants. - They met playing or composing music at festivals libreo at friends' houses. - Life in communes. - San Francisco, California was the main city meeting place for hippies. - Tolerance of homosexuality and bisexuality.

Gay liberation: An event, changed something that had been going since the early '50s. The gay movement was small and discreet so far, still suffering from the prejudices of the time. The happening of which we speak, took place in a bar (the "Stonewll Inn.") For homosexual Greenwich Village, a bohemian district of New York. One night in June 1969 in an operation that seemed routine, police raided the Stonewall, because it was not licensed to sell alcohol and by that time attracted a large clientele of young, loud and transvestites. What might have gone unnoticed, that night resulted in an unprecedented backlash. Instead of dispersing, the regulars responded with anger. The riot lasted several days and caused the event came to light, the cause of "gay liberation". The environmental activists for this cause, in turn influenced by the movements of black power and liberation of women, took strength and took places on public opinion at the time.

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