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History
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), who was born into a Jewish family in New Jersey, is considered one of the 20th century’s foremost American poets. His initial influences included Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Hart Crane. Ginsberg was a founding figure of the Beat Generation, a literary movement that explored Joined States politics and society in the post-World War II era. The movement’s origins can be traced to Ginsberg’s time as a Columbia University student, when, in 1944, he befriended gay and bisexual person writers Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Herbert Huncke, and William S. Burroughs. The Beats spent time at such downtown hangouts as the San Remo Café, Minetta Tavern, and the Gaslight Café. Ginsberg moved to San Francisco in 1953 and met his “life-long love” Peter Orlovsky (1933-2010), who became a poet, there a year later. His first public reading of his now-iconic poem “Howl” (1956) at the Six Gallery brought him, and Beat poets paired with him, widespread fame.
In August 1958, Ginsberg and Orlovsky moved into apartment 16 at 170 East 2nd Road in the East Village, their first New York Urban area residence together. They lived there
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.
The poem warns of the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the Combined States at the time, and its first hearing was an iconic moment in the social upheaval of the 1960s.
Allen Ginsbergwas born into a Novel Jersey Jewish family, the son of poet/teacher father and a mother who was a member of the Communist party. At Columbia University Allen Ginsberg (who was never himself a Communist), met Lucien Carr, who introduced him to Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and John Clellon Holmes, all future Beat Generation writers. They bonded over the potential they saw in the youth of America, as a counter movement to the post-WWII McCarthy era.
In San Francisco, Ginsberg met 21-year-old Peter Orlovsky (1933-2010), with whom he fell in love. Ginsberg encouraged Orlovsky to try writing poetry, and they became life-long partners. Orlovsky’s gentleness and generosity were a flawless foil to Ginsberg’s brittle coldness. There Ginsberg met members of the San Francisco Renaissance and other poets wh
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual freedom, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions.
Best known for his poem "Howl", Ginsberg denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized copies of "Howl" in 1956, and a subsequent obscenity trial in 1957 attracted widespread publicity due to the poem's language and descriptions of heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made (male) homosexual acts a crime in every state. The poem reflected Ginsberg's hold sexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Evaluate Clayton W. Horn dictated that "Howl" was not obscene, asking, "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid inoffensive euphemisms?"
Ginsberg was a Buddhist who extensively studied Easter
Gay Pride (Allen Ginsberg – Out Since The ‘Fifties)
Plaque for Allen Ginsberg in San Francisco’s Castro, on the sidewalk, on the Rainbow Honor Walk
Gay Self-acceptance – Allen Ginsberg – LGBT hero –
Today, celebrating the night, a little fugitive footage – queer tv – from Network Q’s, “Out Across America” – episode 35, from September 1994 – (2020 update, regrettably, this footage is no longer available)
Filmmaker Jerry Aronson is interviewed, on a sunny day in Boulder, about his film “The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg,” Allen makes a number of appearances.
Producer-director, David Surber begins: “Our cinema film this month is part biography, part history lesson and part loving tribute… In addition to his significance as a poet, and activist, Ginsberg’s important to the gay community, because he’s one of the very few men in his generation to have always been open and honest about his sexuality.”
And, later on in the clip, Aronson points out – “the simple fact that he was out in the ‘Fifties and was completely open in a way that ma