Talk:Summer of Love

Unsuitable Writing Style in Intro
I think the writing could be improved in the Intro. It's almost written like an opinion Essay rather than an encyclopedia entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.229.33.254 (talk) 09:15, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Timothy Leary
The wikipedia article on Timothy Leary says that he was an Instructor at Harvard, rather than a tenured Professor, and that he was fired rather than having resigned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krautsk (talk • contribs) 18:21, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

All were eager to integrate new ideas and insights into daily life, both public and private.
How does one know that every single person that participated in the Summer of Love were eager to do these things?70.173.20.229 (talk) 08:39, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

When the truth and a good story conflict, print the story :-) 210.22.142.82 (talk) 07:43, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

50th anniversary of Summer of Love
It seems the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco have deemed this event is not worth of our city of love! The Board of Supervisors have not issued a permit to Boots Houghston for SF to experience this awesome event of LOVE!

Please show you support of this by contacting the Board of Supervisors to express your disbelief and your desire for this most amazing event to be held in SF.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sanfrangurl09 (talk • contribs) 22:38, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

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The Death of Hippie
I think there is a misconception around the event known as the Death of Hippie. First of all, I believe the correct name is "Death of Hippie", not "Death of the Hippie". This difference represents the misconception. The organizers were not signaling the death of the idealism and anti-commercialism that America associated with hippies. Rather, there was strong aversion to the caricature that the media had created around the word hippie. Throughout the summer, Haight-Ashbury had become a media sensation covered on the nightly news. Bus tours were organized through the Haight and the Summer of Love youth started feeling like animals in a zoo. The organizers wanted America to focus on the ideals represented by the Human Be-In and the Summer of Love, not the Hippie caricature. Thus they conducted a funeral for Hippie (not "the Hippie"). Westwind273 (talk) 17:50, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Reference to the Provo movement of the Netherlands?
I know that the be-in of the summer of love was inspired by the "happenings" organised in Amsterdam by PROVO as an anti-monarchist and anti-brutalist protest, and they too inspired the early hippies to use weed, as the PROVO weed company boat was popular roughly a decade before the summer of love. This happened because of the disbandment of the Dutch empire, with Surinamese and Indian people moving to the country. I do right now not have the time to add references, but it would bring greater understanding of the origins of this part of culture to add this either here or in the adjacent article on Beatnik. 82.172.124.188 (talk) 18:14, 31 January 2024 (UTC)