What decade was the best generation to party in?

70s but I don't need a time machine, I was there.

1980s

The 20s, for sure.

Decadence AND high style. And lotsa dancing and booze.

(FWIW, the 70s in NYC/LA are my second choice.)

Agree with R3 on both eras (and I lived througj the 70s).

For gays….70s

Str8s 60s and 70s

The 1970s was a ten year party

A generation only lasts a decade now?

R7 You have a very hard time just having fun. I hope things improve. How sad you are.

That's what I thought.

We'll never know if the underground 20s were fucking awesome at the clubs that were ok with everyone

The 70s, without a doubt.

1920s.

The 70s. In hindsight it was a carefree and decadent time to be young and gay. The music. The clubs. The sex and the drugs! We all thought we'd live forever. Then it all came crashing down by the early 80s.

90s. Better music, better pills.

20s…720 BC, that is. Town of Sybaris

The 2000s.

I enjoyed the 70s the most.

1920s, but with soap and deodorant available.

I thought a generation was 20 years...

Yes, r18. And the last party generation was the 2000s, like I said. You can't not be compelled to get on the dance floor when you hear "Cash Money records taking over for the '99 and the 2000s" in the club. You just can't. To this day, this record, keeps people moving.

I’m too lazy to google for it but I definitely want to be in a speakeasy in Chicago, so what time is that? Gotta be the 20s, I think.

R19 you must have been in highschool or a young adult during that time.

It's like when everyone thinks what time period SNL was at it's peak. (Their hs/college years)

I can objectively assess with accuracy it was most likely the free love 70s.

20's. Fun but wholesome. Jazz and fun speak easies to drink bootleg hootch in. Probably the 1st decade women allowed themselves to party, drink and smoke like the men. Fast model T fords to "neck" in with your boyfriend....movies. The 70's were just pure debauchery and they did not end well.

The 90s were fun in a lot of ways. There was a variety of great popular music, and movies were still entertaining. NYC had a vital downtown counterculture.

But AIDS was very much part of gay male life, and it was still largely a death sentence until the next generation of meds came along after 1995-96.

Late 1970's and half of the 80's. I had a great time. What great times.

[quote] The 70's were just pure debauchery and they did not end well.

Neither did the 20s, really:

If I could, I would live in a 1965-1980 loop. Second choice would be the Roaring Twenties. The most liberated times in America.

Whenever you were young & carefree.

What a sloppy list, suggesting there was no reason to leave the house from 1990.

Admiral Russell's 1694 party with 5000 drunken sailors and bartenders in canoes inside fountains of drink has its possibilities.

I’d have to second the 70s. Any generation after AIDS hit you can’t count because sex is such a huge part of partying. And in the 20s women hadn’t yet been liberated with birth control and alcohol was illegal. So given those factors, the 70s was the best period to party - free bodies, gays finally free to party openly, drugs and alcohol everywhere, no specter of a disease a shot couldn’t cure and widely acknowledged as the best period in the music industry ever - perfect pairing of industry money and very real talent.

And I missed all of it being born in ‘75.

The best dance music was probably the disco in the late 70s (especially from where you came from musically) but the best pills (MDMA and MDA) were legally available from 1977 to May 31, 1985, where the DEA declared an emergency schedule I, i.e. a drug with high potential for abuse (as a mostly serotonergic drug it's highly doubtful but some fat whores become addict to chocolate) with no therapeutic use (even though it was used therapeutically by psychatrists and clinical researchers at the time). Since disco died July 12, 1979, I would say from 1977 to 1979. Unfortunately I wasn't there but I envy Sally Lippman (Disco Sally) who was there when it happened.

^ The night disco died was more of a push against the gay movement than black music. Disco music was the first popular music from the Gay community with artist like Sylvester, The Village People and Queen. It was the forerunner to the Lil Nas X Ole Town Road fiasco when middle America felt duped by embracing something implicitly gay, by the time you had Disney’s Disco Duck and Ethel Merman recording disco songs. The night Disco died was a gay panic that led to the rise of the complete opposite hetero-affirming Punk and Heavy Metal in America.

R29 the fact that alcohol was ilegal was the best part. So many secrets bars, hidden speakeasies, the sneaky fun of it all!

70's, early 80's. Life was just happy then, carefree.

[quote]Disco music was the first popular music from the Gay community with artist like Sylvester, The Village People and Queen.

Queen was disco?

r21 Close. Middle school and high school. Many of our party soundtracks were so lit they resulted in lawsuits. Ying Yang Twins got sued by Disney for "Whistle While You Twerk." OutKast got sued by Rosa Parks for..."Rosa Parks." Good times.

the 1970's - the era of "live and let live" and "if it feels good, do it" .. The 1970's were almost a collective party celebrating the end of the Vietnam war and the serious social issues of the 1950's/60's

The 1920s. Bright Young Things. Scavenger hunts (a custodian's helmet!) Jazz. Country houses. Scandals. Travel. Cocktail culture.

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