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{{For|the album|Love-In}}{{more citations needed|date=October 2008}}A love-in is a peaceful public gathering focused on meditation, love, music, sex and/or use of recreational drugs. The term was coined by Los Angeles radio comedian Peter Bergman, creator of comedy group The Firesign Theater, who also hosted the first such event on Easter, 26 March 1967 in Elysian Park.WEB,weblink Rare Elysian Park Love-In Poster, Lofty Marketplace, File:Love In at Mardi Gras Fountain New Orleans 1969 poster.png|thumb|Poster for a Love-In in New OrleansNew Orleans

The term

The term love-in has been interpreted in varying manners, but is often connected to protesting local, social or environmental issues.Book of Life {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103001341weblink |date=2017-01-03 }} reference to early love-insA Houston-area "Love In {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312100328weblink |date=2011-03-12 }}" -- a flash mob gathering to save Love Elementary School from being shut down, in March 2011. Such protests were often held in opposition to the Vietnam War.WEB,weblink Newsreel, History.sandiego.edu, 2010-09-01, As such, love-ins are largely considered a staple of the 1960s hippie counterculture.More recently the term is occasionally used figuratively to describe a situation in which people shower praise on one another in excess.WEB,weblink Meaning of "love-in" in English, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge English Dictionary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus, September 10, 2019,

Background

The First Love-in was preceded by the Heavenly Happening, at midnight, on November 16, 1966, on the Sheep Meadow in Central Park, organized by New York Parks Commissioner, Thomas Hoving.WEB, Warsh, Marie, Happenings: Art, Play, and Urban Revitalization in 1960s Central Park,weblink The Gotham Center for New York City History, 21 February 2019, 7 December 2021,

January 1967 Human Be-In

The 'Human Be-In at the Polo Fields in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967.WEB,weblink American Experience Summer of Love, PBS, 2017-08-31, 2015-09-24,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150924154214weblink">weblink live, WEB, Goldberg, Danny, All the Human Be-In Was Saying 50 Years Ago, Was Give Peace a Chance,weblink The Nation, 12 January 2021, 13 January 2017, WEB, Palmer, Steven, The Human Be-In Teach-In,weblink Oral History Masters of Arts, Columbia University, 12 January 2021,

First Love-in on Easter in Elysian Park

The First Love-in started before dawn.WEB, The Elysian Park Love-In Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary This Sunday,weblink LAist, 7 December 2021, en, 14 April 2017, The Los Angeles Free Press promoted the event. 15,000 people

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1967 New York Easter Be-in

The New York Easter 1967NEWS, Holson, Laura M., When a 'Be In' in Central Park Was Front-Page News,weblink 7 December 2021, The New York Times, 25 March 2019, WEB,weblink BE-IN - 1967 - Central Park, New York - the Lost Ektachrome Footage - Easter Sunday, YouTube, 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.WEB,weblink Central Park Rite is Medieval Pageant, Don, McNeil, Village Voice, March 30, 1967,

1967 Cambridge Common Concerts

Founded in 1967 at Harvard Square by J. Robert “Bob” Gordon, it recurred for nearly eight years, until 1975.WEB,weblink Cambridge Common Concerts, 29 July 2012, WEB,weblink 1967 Stoned Hippies Tell All to a Film Crew. Early Reality TV, YouTube,

See also

• Central Park be-in

References

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External links

• Sulfiati Magnuson. (1967) Elysian Park Love-In - Getty Images
• Michael Ochs. (1967) Elysian Park Love-In - Getty Images

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