How the 1960's Cured America. [View All]

[alfredo]

This article makes me think the current GOP is still reacting to the sixties (and the FDR 40's).

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/12/1960s.era.baby.boomers/index.html?hpt=C2

Before 1960, only undivorced white Protestant men had ever served in the White House. Almost 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African-Americans lived in segregated communities and attended segregated schools on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, and none attended the all-white state universities of the South.

Gay people were completely invisible, except when they were fired from the federal government (or any company doing business with the federal government, where they were also banned from employment.)

There were no openly gay journalists, doctors, lawyers or professors and only two openly gay public figures in the whole country: James Baldwin and Allen Ginsberg.