I'm having a great time looking through this subreddit. I have known it exists but for some reason didn't check it out with much effort. But now I have "joined."

This post is going to be a bit on the more serious side relative to everything else that is on this sub. I've been giving some thought about how hippies regard the LGBT community. One of the tenets of the hippie lifestyle is letting everyone do their thing. As long as one's ways doesn't impose on anyone else one should feel free to live however one wants or sees fit. So by definition hippies are cool with LGBT folks.

But are they?

This is a question more for the older hippies here, I guess,, because I was chatting with some online a few weeks ago, and queer ones at that, who said even among hippies of the '60s gays were not particularly respected. I expected that courtesy to be extended back then, but it turns out you didn't mention you're into the same sex, especially men, as was typical in mainstream society.

Didn't this homophobia strike any hippies as hypocritical back then? Does this attitude still exist among hippies to any significant degree? And besides "do your own thing," what does hippieism say about attraction to the same sex, or identity with the gender not assigned at birth, or about sexuality and sexual identity in general?