The Best Year 1969
Channel: _Juliennn_
Date: 27/01/2022

The year 1969, erotic year according to Gainsbourg, it is for me the year of the questioning of the established order.
Whether it is at the scientific or societal levels, the baby-boomer generation is making itself heard and redefining the norms of their times.
In a context of cold war and race to progress, on July 21, the Apollo 11 mission landed on the lunar surface, thus pushing the barriers of "possible", it also marks one of the first victories of the American capitalist system.
On the night of June 22, the actress Judy Garland died at the age of 47, following an excessive voluntary or accidental intake of antidepressants.
On June 28, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York, a gay bar (mostly frequented by trans and African-American youth), the Stonewall Inn, was raided yet again. Already mourning the death of the icon, they choose the rainbow as a symbol (in reference to the song "Over the Rainbow"), and start fighting for their rights. Riots followed that lasted 5 days and led to a greater recognition of the LGBTQIA+ minority.
From August 15 to 18, the Woodstock festival gathers nearly 500 000 people, and marks the apogee of the hippie subculture. This subculture rejects traditional values, the lifestyle of their parents' generation and the consumer society.
On November 21, two computers, one in Los Angles and the other in Stanford, are connected for the first time. This is the first Arpanet link and marks the birth of the father of the Internet.
Finally, on September 13, a new cultural revolution takes place. What do I say, it is
the birth of a phenomenon that will revolutionize the world and more particularly the audiovisual one. The first episode of Scooby-doo was broadcast on American television.
My concept is therefore simple and consists in illustrating these events which took part in my identity development, and which by a happy chance are for the most part grouped in 1969.