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I can think of at least four reasons for this approach. The travel and tourism industry has changed before. A few months ago I heard and a speaker on the Pacifica and Network show "Alternative Radio" outline the progress of the gay rights movement during the past 55 years, starting with the Beat poets in New York and San Francisco. During the 1950s, urban gay men generated a renaissance of art and literature. While the suburbs were becoming staunchly conservative and "family-oriented," and the Beats were "cool." The Beats tolerated and accepted homosexuality. Then a backlash occurred in the 1960s. Homosexuality was medicalized and criminalized while gay men were committed to mental health facilities and gay hangouts were raided regularly. This led to the riots at Stonewall (a regularly raided gay bar), which often are cited as the beginning of the political movement for gay rights. After Stonewall, laws and culture began to change. By the end of the 1970s, homosexuality had been removed from psychologists’ diagnostic codes and gay activists were solidly organized. |
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