When did the term “lesbian hippie” become so popular?
1) Actually, the hippie movement was at the origin of the sexual revolution, and indirectly of the gay movement. One could see gay people and hippie together on various protest marches. Some of those gays (and lesbians) were hippies. Hippies have not totally disappeared. Their ideas have rather become mainstream (at least in some places). As far as I can see, the expression “lesbian hippies” is a quite recent conservative meme to put all those people together in a drawer: lesbians, hippies, feminists. 2) “The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world. The word hippie derives from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. These people inherited the countercultural values of the Beat Generation, created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as marijuana and LSD t
