[alexander_busek]

Something happened in the 70's whereby homosexuality went from being criminal, to just disgusting, to tolerable, to just plain adorable.

Yes, and I'm just racking my brain, trying to remember what individual incident, what one-time event it was that triggered that. Can you help?

/s

Regards,

[thecodont]

I don’t know. Roe v. Wade (1973) maybe?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Maybe that one time event was WWII. It was soon after WWII that we got the beatniks who were the precursors to the hippies.

We also had the total mobilization of the US population where many women were thrown into the workforce and civilians got used to being told what to do for the greater cause.

There's lots of evidence that US morals started cracking up in the supposedly clean and spiffy 50's.

The 60's and 70's was just when the dam that had been seeping for years finally gave way.