tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390876285955310032.post3357435353481636781..comments2024-03-26T14:48:15.857-07:00Comments on Rocket Stack Rank: At Cooney's, by Delia ShermanGreg Hullenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16720604327299886491noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390876285955310032.post-33156346465942993462018-01-07T11:13:44.479-08:002018-01-07T11:13:44.479-08:00Before the gay movement started, most people had n...Before the gay movement started, most people had never heard of homosexuality. Lots of gay people lived their lives in the closet thinking they were the only people in the world who felt the way they did.<br /><br />This meant that people who did learn about it tended to make up their own minds. They hadn't grown up hearing preachers condemning us regularly. <br /><br />The police in big cities certainly knew all about it, of course, and you find references in literature all the way back to the start of the 20th Century, but it wasn't something most people talked about.<br /><br />By the 1960s, attitudes were starting to change. Partly due to the Kinsey Report, but also from the nascent gay rights movement. As you observe, this made things worse before they got better. It was probably late 1970s or early 1980s before the gay movement was a net win for gay people in the US.Greg Hullenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16720604327299886491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390876285955310032.post-59920347469160847402018-01-07T08:19:10.458-08:002018-01-07T08:19:10.458-08:00Nice glimpse of two different time periods. Fun t...Nice glimpse of two different time periods. Fun to have expectations flipped in seeing the Prohibition 20's be more liberal about gender and sexuality than the free-loving 60's, at least in this particular place.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16119082365881285289noreply@blogger.com