The LGBTQ Community and the Beat Generation

• James Broughton - poet, playwright and filmmaker
• William S. Burroughs - author
• Lucien Carr - journalist
• Robert Duncan - poet
• Robert Giard - photographer
• Allen Ginsberg - poet and LGBTQ activist
• Herbert Huncke - poet and author
• Alfred Kinsey - academic
• John Krokidas - filmmaker
• Peter Orlovsky - poet and author
• Michael Rumaker - poet and writer
• Gore Vidal - writer

See Also

• LGBTQ Participation in the Harlem Renaissance
• The Violet Quill Author's Group

Further Reading/Research

• https://glreview.org/article/heart-of-the-beat-generation/
• https://qssfc.wordpress.com/2012autumn/sexuality-in-the-beat-generation/
• http://jimburroway.com/history/the-homosexual-and-the-beat-generation/

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