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The hippies was originally a youth movement that arose in the U.S. during the mid - 1960's. The early hippies ideologies included the countercultural values of the Beat generation. Some created their own social groups and communities, listened to psychedelic rock embrace the sexual revolution and used drugs such as marijuan and LSD to explore alternative state of consciousness. In January 1967 the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized hippie culture leading to the legenday Summer of Love on the the West Coast of the United States and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast.

Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature and the arts.