Watching A Programme About The Late Great Doris Day ( Recorded)

Bobbisox1 | 22:55 Mon 24th Feb 2020 | ChatterBank

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And her films with people like Frank Sinatra and Rock Hudson, I said to my OH how Rock Hudson was drop dead gorgeous , we discussed the fact he died HIV positive , I said I can honestly say I’d never the word p**f , gay or any such label as a teen growing up in the 60s ,nor did I know about drugs and had never been offered them, and this was the ‘ liberated ‘ decade

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Buenchico

Homosexuality got mentioned in English Literature classes at our grammar school (1964 to 1971) but not really elsewhere.

However you could easily get stoned from the smell of cannabis just by walking past the windows of our 6th form common room ;-)

douglas9401

Que sera sera

Bobbisox1

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Chris I did go to Amsterdam many, many years later and walked past a ‘ cafe’ and got my first whiff of what was cannabis , haha

david small

I Always thought that Rock Hudson personified the perfect male specimen. I was quite surprised to find that he was gay.
You never can tell. I was also a teen in the sixties and only ever had one strange dropout pointed out to me as a drug user, a person to be avoided. How times change.

Bobbisox1

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David, I’d much rather be me then than now ?

Buenchico

It wasn't a 'café' then. It was a 'coffee shop'.
(It makes a big difference in Amsterdam!)

;-)

Bobbisox1

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Okay, a ‘coffee shop’ lol

Maydup

There was a huge amount of repression and shame associated with being gay even in the 60's Bobby. Up until 1967 it was still an offence to be homosexual and only during the liberated decade did things begin to change.