The term love-in has been interpreted in varying manners, but is often connected to protesting local, social or environmental issues.[2][3] Such protests were often held in opposition to the Vietnam War.[4] As such, love-ins are largely considered a staple of the 1960s hippiecounterculture.
More recently the term is occasionally used figuratively to describe a situation in which people shower praise on one another in excess.[5]
The New York Easter 1967[15][16] be-in was organized by Jim Fouratt, an actor; Paul Williams, editor of Crawdaddy! magazine; Susan Hartnett, head of the Experiments in Art and Technology organization; and Chilean poet and playwright Claudio Badal.[17]
1967 Cambridge Common Concerts
Founded in 1967 at Harvard Square by J. Robert “Bob” Gordon, it recurred for nearly eight years, until 1975.[18][19]
^"Rare Elysian Park Love-In Poster". Lofty Marketplace.
^Book of Life Archived 2017-01-03 at the Wayback Machine reference to early love-ins
^A Houston-area "Love In Archived 2011-03-12 at the Wayback Machine" -- a flash mob gathering to save Love Elementary School from being shut down, in March 2011.
^Warsh, Marie (21 February 2019). "Happenings: Art, Play, and Urban Revitalization in 1960s Central Park". The Gotham Center for New York City History. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
^"American Experience Summer of Love". PBS. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
^Goldberg, Danny (13 January 2017). "All the Human Be-In Was Saying 50 Years Ago, Was Give Peace a Chance". The Nation. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
^Palmer, Steven. "The Human Be-In Teach-In". Oral History Masters of Arts. Columbia University. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
^ a b"The Elysian Park Love-In Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary This Sunday". LAist. 14 April 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
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^"Elysian Park Love-in, March 26, 1967". am on the radio. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
^"Elysian Park Love-In Los Angeles 1967 Gary Grimshaw AOR 3.53 Event Poster". Concert Poster Auction. Archived from the original on October 23, 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2021. Original 1st printing 17&3/8 x 22&3/8" concert/event poster for the 3/26/1967 Easter Sunday Love-In, an all-day happening held at Elysian Park in Los Angeles, CA......... by Gary Grimshaw, image is featured in the Art of Rock book on page 270 (plate 3.53).
^Magnuson, Sulfiati (26 June 2019). "This first Love-In for L.A. held in Griffith Park's Elysian Field on Easter Sunday, 1967". Getty Images. Retrieved 7 December 2021. It wasn't just self-identified hippies who attended, but bikers, the "straight" ones, the curious ones, singles and families, and self-proclaimed clans ("families" created by choice) flying home-made banners. And, yes, many were high, openly flaunting the laws. at the 1st Elysian Park Love-In on March 26, 1967 in Los Angeles, California
^Holson, Laura M. (25 March 2019). "When a 'Be In' in Central Park Was Front-Page News". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
^"BE-IN - 1967 - Central Park, New York - the Lost Ektachrome Footage - Easter Sunday". YouTube.
^McNeil, Don (March 30, 1967). "Central Park Rite is Medieval Pageant". Village Voice.
^"Cambridge Common Concerts". 29 July 2012.
^"1967 Stoned Hippies Tell All to a Film Crew. Early Reality TV". YouTube.
External links
Sulfiati Magnuson. (1967) Elysian Park Love-In - Getty Images