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Among the list of unconventional behaviour of the Do better than writers as they rebelled resistant to the conformism of the overdue 1940s and 1950s was their calm stance on sexuality. At the same time when gay individuals were considered mentally sick or unlawful, the Beats celebrated spontaneity and flexibility in thought, phrase, and action. They were queer in the fullest sense of the term: their fluid sexuality challenged all erotic and loving conventions. Combining fiction, characters, and poetry, Queer Beats explores the erotic pulse that throbbed throughout the Beats' writings - from the perverse "cut-up" prose of William S. Burroughs's Nude Lunch time and the homoerotic poetry of Allen Ginsberg to Jack port Kerouac's letter to Neal Cassady in which he declares (despite erotic encounters with Ginsberg and Gore Vidal): "Posterity will laugh at me if it thinks I was queer." This collection also includes writings by Diane di Prima, Frank O'Hara, Herbert Huncke, Elise Cowen, Robert Duncan, and others.
