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Old 07-09-2019, 04:54 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by dcarson View Post
I'd expect that with less of the distrust of the government and society you wouldn't get the 60s counter culture. If magic works then people that can do magic will get accepted so native shamanic magic and voodoo might make those groups more accepted. But sexual differences such would still be outside the mainstream and the mainstream would still be fit in or else.
The sexual revolution had been perking along for decades. The one two punch of the Great Depression and WWII massively loosened things up. Yes, everyone in Homeline's history supported Moral Rearmament ( citation link later) but as in our world post prosperity was just as disruptive to conventional morality as the depression and the war.

Also, lets not forget Hollywood and TV. The media knew sex sells. It mattered little the message of De Mille's Sign of the Cross ( citation link later) audiences remembered the handsome muscular effeminate slave boy sitting by Nero's side. (I think he was the only Camp Effeminate Gay man meant to be sexually appealing in Hollywood film to date. Although Beef in Phantom of the Paradise might be an exception.)

The sexual revolution, the renewal of Feminism( which required the right to dump the burdens of being "ladylike" when necessary), and Gay Rights which needed both movements to step forward itself, were always in the works. The sixties counter culture ( which had its origins in the post WWI period if not in the Aesthetite Movement) was also baked in early. It might not spread as far and fast, but the Flower Children, like their namesakes, will push up through the concrete.
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