Don’t know where you got your info, but the “hippie generation” was a minority and not capable of the things you credit them with. Also, you might want to research the Beatnik generation who actually introduced a LOT of the concepts the hippies are commonly credited with.
“Hippie Generation” is a metaphor. The 60’s did indeed usher in the things I mention. Of course, drugs, homosexuality, “free love,” etc, all existed before that time. In fact they existed in biblical times. I am slamming the arrogance of Bill Clinton’s generation in thinking they can deny the wisdom of the ages, make up new definitions for age-old concepts, and just expect everyone to fall in line. Like Papa foutsc used to say, “Just because they say it don’t make it so.”