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You forgot the genesis of the counterculture movement —- anyone who was discharged from the military for being gay was processed through the base in San Francisco and then sent on their way, often with no money. So a lot of them stayed in SF and formed a community to support each other.

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Had never heard of that. What is somewhat common knowledge is alot of the counter cultural movement that was going on in SF and the bay area in general was due to a number of factors, protests against the war being one, experimentation with acid being another, see Timothy Leary, CIA(acid experiments in SF with unsuspecting johns seeing prostitutes etc). Also the music scene(grateful dead, etc) which tied into LSD and mushrooms were heavily influenced by each other and started in SF, along with LA and a few other places.

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