Were the 70s more socially liberal than the 80s?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yes. In the 70s people were starting to accept gays and marijuana. States legalized homosexuality and decriminalized pot. Then came the 80s, an AIDS scare scapegoating gays and anti-drug propaganda, and that all changed and states quit doing that until the 90s.

[Beet]

Yeah, who is it who said that the Ford administration was a golden age between sexual liberation and AIDS?

[dead0man]

Yes, Al Gore and his wife tried to censor popular music in the 80s and he at least is, to some, a leftwing wet dream.  That along with the war on drugs and other things mentioned previously clearly make the 80s less socially liberal than the 70s.

[Deldem]

Definitely. The 80s are when the conservative backlash came back against all that had gone on the previous 20 years.

[Eraserhead]

Yes, Al Gore and his wife tried to censor popular music in the 80s and he at least is, to some, a leftwing wet dream.  That along with the war on drugs and other things mentioned previously clearly make the 80s less socially liberal than the 70s.

Gore was basically a conservative at the time.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Ummm.... Does anyone really think otherwise? I thought this was pretty standard obvious stuff...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Ummm.... Does anyone really think otherwise? I thought this was pretty standard obvious stuff...

Are we talking social attitudes or cultural stuff?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Ummm.... Does anyone really think otherwise? I thought this was pretty standard obvious stuff...

Are we talking social attitudes or cultural stuff?

Errr... Yes I see what you mean.. I was talking culturally though (as a note that is my default mode of talking about most things historical).

The 80s do mark the beginning of the conservatization of post-war liberalism though - which does confuse perceptions of the decade.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Yes. The 80s were a horrible decade.

[Bo]

Yes. The Religious Right had a lot of influence in the 1980s, but it was just forming and organizing in the 1970s.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Yes. The Religious Right had a lot of influence in the 1980s, but it was just forming and organizing in the 1970s.

Which do you prefer?