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Woodstock: My Queer Love Story

by Sari Botton August 15, 2019October 19, 2022

Kate Walter recalls attending Woodstock in 1969 with her boyfriend — a few years before they split up and both came out.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story

The Light Years

by Longreads April 2, 2019October 19, 2022

After his parents pushed him out of their home, a teenager descended into the drug-fueled counterculture of the 1970s American West.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Killer Who Spared My Mother

by Sari Botton August 5, 2018October 19, 2022

In an attempt to understand her own chronic pain, Diana Whitney uncovers a violent trauma from her mother’s past.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

The Killer Who Spared My Mother

by Diana Whitney August 3, 2018October 19, 2022

In an attempt to understand her own chronic pain, Diana Whitney uncovers a violent trauma from her mother’s past.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

The Killer Who Spared My Mother

by Diana Whitney August 3, 2018October 19, 2022

In an attempt to understand her own chronic pain, Diana Whitney uncovers a violent trauma from her mother’s past.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes

Possessed by Music

by Aaron Gilbreath January 15, 2018October 19, 2022

Unraveling the mystery of the shirtless hippie who danced at countless rock shows in the UK during the last quarter of the 20th century.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love

by Longreads August 7, 2017October 19, 2022

The merchants of Haight-Ashbury advertised a summer of free food, free lodging, and free love. What they got instead was a civic nightmare.

Posted inArts & Culture, Story

The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love

by Longreads August 7, 2017October 19, 2022

The merchants of Haight-Ashbury advertised a summer of free food, free lodging, and free love. What they got instead was a civic nightmare.

Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Quotes

What Alex Jones and Amanda Chantal Bacon Have in Common

by mlegro May 26, 2017October 19, 2022

A new profile of the Moon Juice entrepreneur reveals how the hippie left intersects with the conspiracist right.

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