Summer of Love
1967 countercultural moment
The Summer of Love was the summer of 1967, when tens of thousands of young people converged on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, drawn by psychedelic drugs, rock music, and countercultural ideals.
The phrase now evokes that specific moment of hippie optimism and excess, or any period of carefree hedonism: We had our own summer of love before reality set in.
Countercultural youth of the sixties
- flower powerNonviolent resistance ideology
- Haight-AshburyCounterculture crossroads in San Francisco
- psychedeliaDrug-inspired artistic movement
- communeShared-living community
drop out · tune in · peace movement · anti-establishment · bohemian · alternative lifestyle · consciousness expansion · Golden Gate Park
Psychedelic rock band
- Monterey PopPioneering California music festival
- acid rockDrug-influenced heavy music
- psychedelic rockHallucinogen-inspired music genre
Psychedelic hallucinogen
- acidLow-pH chemical compound
- tripPlanned travel somewhere
- hallucinogensPerception-distorting drugs
- marijuanaPsychoactive hemp plant
Timothy Leary · peyote · psychedelics · mind expansion · altered states · blotter · hashish
Flared-leg trousers
- tie-dyeBound-fabric coloring technique
- flower crownsHeadwear made from blossoms
- beadsSmall pierced ornaments for stringing
- headbandsStrips encircling the skull
fringe · peasant blouses · sandals · long hair · granny glasses · peace symbols · patchwork
Opposition to mandatory military service
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- antiwar movementOrganized protest against warfare
- peace signsV-shaped hand signals
- demonstrationsPublic displays of opinion
hippies
Countercultural youth of the sixties
- flower powerNonviolent resistance ideology
- Haight-AshburyCounterculture crossroads in San Francisco
- psychedeliaDrug-inspired artistic movement
commune · drop out · tune in · peace movement · anti-establishment · bohemian · alternative lifestyle · consciousness expansion · Golden Gate Park · happening
Jefferson Airplane
Psychedelic rock band
- Monterey PopPioneering California music festival
- acid rockDrug-influenced heavy music
- psychedelic rockHallucinogen-inspired music genre
LSD
Psychedelic hallucinogen
- acidLow-pH chemical compound
- tripPlanned travel somewhere
- hallucinogensPerception-distorting drugs
Timothy Leary · marijuana · peyote · psychedelics · mind expansion · altered states · blotter · hashish
bell-bottoms
Flared-leg trousers
- tie-dyeBound-fabric coloring technique
- flower crownsHeadwear made from blossoms
- beadsSmall pierced ornaments for stringing
headbands · fringe · peasant blouses · sandals · long hair · granny glasses · peace symbols · patchwork
draft resistance
Opposition to mandatory military service
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- antiwar movementOrganized protest against warfare
- peace signsV-shaped hand signals
demonstrations · student activism · social change · revolution · dissent
- PsychedeliaLSD, acid, psychedelic posters, tie-dye, hallucination
- Sixtieshippies, Beatles, Woodstock, Vietnam War, JFK
- 1967Six-Day War, Monterey Pop, Super Bowl I, Thurgood Marshall, Detroit riots
- California historystatehood, Spanish colonization, Spanish mission, gold rush, Sutter's Mill
- countercultureflower power, flower children, hippie communes, Woodstock, peace symbols
- sexual freedomsexual liberation, sexual revolution, sexual freedom, consent, sexual autonomy
Summer of LoveMcCarthyism
Politically-motivated accusation without evidence
Vietnam War · Altamont · Kent State · conformity · law and order
Summer of Love1968
Volatile year of upheaval
Tet Offensive · Watergate · Great Depression · Dust Bowl · stagflation
love, lovely, loving, summer, loved, lover, beloved, lovers, lovingly