taking advantage of today's good internet connection . . .

[kindkit]

. . . to say that I probably ought to be ashamed that my main reaction to these photos of British gay rights pioneers is, "damn, people were ugly in the 1970s."

Seriously. It's not just the, er, experimental clothes or the hideous stringy hippie hair. Their faces are lumpy and weird, even allowing for a bad camera and terrible lighting.

And this was the era when people were having lots of sex, all the time! I don't understand.

Comments

[lilliburlero]

They look a lot like the hipsterish crowd here in Dublin... clothes and beards and all. I wonder if we're entering a period like the mid-19th or early 16th century where beards are a default male-grooming setting. I seem to see a lot of men with the straggly sort that results from needing quite a lot of length to obtain reasonable area coverage: it's an uncomfortable look, as if they'd be happier all round clean-shaven, but feel that they'd lose their counter-culture or intellectual credentials if they did.