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Queer Beats : How the Beats Turned America On to Sex by Marler, Regina is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Marler, Regina
Publisher
Cleis Press : Made available through hoopla
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9781283287036
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Science

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