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Queer Beats: how the Beats turned America on to sex

By Regina , Marler

Book information

Publisher
Cleis Press
ISBN
9781573447461, 9781283287036, 128328703X, 1573447463
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
333 kB (341337 bytes)
Pages
xxxvii, 209 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
American -- 20th century -- Biography;HomosexualitAmerican--20th century;Beats (Persons);Gay men--UnAmerican;Erotic literatureAmerican;Gay men;Homosexuality and literature;LiteAuthors

Description

Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. -- The Road of Excess; II. -- Male Muses; III. -- Queer Shoulder to the Wheel; Permissions; About the Author; Copyright Page.;The writings that shocked America out of the 1950s. Blasting through the crew-cuts and conformism of their day, the Beat writers were queer in the fullest sense of the word: their fluid sexuality challenged all sexual and romantic conventions. Most shocking of their unconventional attitudes was their embrace of same-sex eroticism. At a time when gay people were considered mentally ill or criminal, the Beats celebrated spontaneity and freedom in thought, word, and action. Their highest value was nakedness--even before Allen Ginsberg stripped bare at a poetry reading to silence a heckler. They would try anything once, then write about it.

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