History 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Betty Friedan, Sexology, Smith College
3 Jan 2018
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Women"s rights, gay rights, and sexual revolution contd. New breed of teenager in 60s hippies. New social activism that involved new generation of teens and hippies. Was seen as deviant society that stressed hetero, families, and babies. Gay men suffered in 50s many stayed as bachelors single men. Kinsey and other sexologists and sociologists discussed homosexuality a lot understood it as a widespread social phenomenon. At turn of century, homosexuality was considered an individual pathology (sickness) by. 50s, it was seen as pervasive phenomenon not just a single person with an illness. The problem is that even though it was a phenomenon- they still understood it as a social problem many gays and lesbians had no role models to help them throughout the decade. Some underground fiction films, plays, novels many of these were not part of mainstream consumer culture- role models for lgbt people were rare they had to suffer alone.
