Editing Summer of Love (section)

===Human Be-In and inspiration===
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The prelude to the Summer of Love was a celebration known as the [[Human Be-In]] at [[Golden Gate Park]] on January 14, 1967,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2007/may/27/escape|title=What was the summer of love?|date=May 26, 2007|work=The Guardian|access-date=August 16, 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> which was produced and organized by artist [[Michael Bowen (artist)|Michael Bowen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfmuseum.net/hist1/rock.html |title=Chronology of San Francisco Rock 1965–1969 |access-date=November 1, 2008 |publisher=Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/beatpics/bp000151.html |title=Copy of Certificate of Honor presented to Michael Bowen |access-date=November 1, 2008 |publisher=City and County of San Francisco  |date=September 2, 2007 }}</ref><ref>T.H. Anderson, ''The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee'', (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 172.</ref>

It was at this event that [[Timothy Leary]] voiced his phrase, "[[turn on, tune in, drop out]]".<ref name="long magazine">{{cite magazine|last=Weller|first=Sheila|title=Suddenly That Summer|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=July 2012|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/07/lsd-drugs-summer-of-love-sixties|access-date=September 28, 2012}}</ref> This phrase helped shape the entire hippie counterculture, as it voiced the key ideas of 1960s rebellion. These ideas included experimenting with [[psychedelics]], communal living, political decentralization, and dropping out of society. The term "dropping out" became popular among many high school and college students, many of whom would abandon their conventional education for a summer or more of hippie culture.

The event was announced by the Haight-Ashbury's hippie newspaper, the ''[[San Francisco Oracle]]'':

<blockquote>A new concept of celebration beneath the human underground must emerge, become conscious, and be shared, so a revolution can be formed with a renaissance of compassion, awareness, and love, and the revelation of unity for all mankind.<ref>''San Francisco Oracle'', vol. 1, issue 5, p. 2.</ref></blockquote>

The gathering of approximately 30,000 at the Human Be-In helped publicize hippie fashions.<ref>T. Gitlin, ''[[The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage]]'', (New York, 1993), p. 215.</ref>