TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marler,Regina
TI  - Queer beats: how the beats turned America on to sex 
SN  - 1-57344-188-0
PY  - 2004///
CY  - San Francisco
PB  - Cleis Press
KW  - Literatura erótica
KW  - Homosexualidad y literatura
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Literatura estadounidense
KW  - 19
KW  - Historia y crítica
N1  - Bibliografía: p. 203-207
N2  - 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
ER  -