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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 Pride – Allen Ginsberg – LGBT hero –
Today, celebrating the day, 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 feature this month is part biography, part history lesson and part loving tribute… In addition to his significance as a poet, and activist, Ginsberg’s vital to the queer people, because he’s one of the very few men in his generation to have always been expose and honest about his sexuality.”
And, later on in the clip, Aronson points out – “the simple truth that he was out in the ‘Fifties and was completely open in a way that mad
~by Michaela Hayes
Allen Ginsberg changed the world. There is really no way around this one. Ginsberg was hugely influential in so many areas of American being it is nearly doomed to believe that he was a real person and not a robot crafted for superhuman warmth and creativity.
Ginsberg was born in New Jersey in 1926. Early on, Ginsberg became interested in the causes which would carry him through his life. He wrote letters to The Novel York Times as a teen about issues such as workers’ rights and Nature War II. He also began reading Walt Whitman in high school, a literary inspiration who would exhibition up in his later work both in essence and by name, such as in “Supermarket in California.”
Allen Ginsberg’s name is often associated with the Hit Movement, and rightly so. Ginsberg spearheaded the Beat Movement with a few other intellectuals while attending Columbia University in the 40s. The movement gained momentum in the 50s with Ginsberg’s publication of his most celebrated poem “Howl” and subsequent obscenity trial.
“Howl” is a lengthy, dense, and attractive poem often considered to be autobiographical of Ginsberg’s experience up to the show it was written. While it is n
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 recognizable 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 lgbtq+ 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 boyfriend. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, asking, "Would there be any freedom of compress or speech if one must lessen his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
Ginsberg was a Buddhist who extensively studied Easter
Allen Ginsberg on the Tyranny of the Closet, Coming Out to His Loved Ones, and How Buddhist Meditation Helped Him Cease Seeking Approval
Legendary Beat poet and LGBT icon Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926–April 5, 1997) endures as one of the most visible and vocal spokespeople for the queer people. Out since before Stonewall, he referred to the lifelong love he distributed with his partner, the poet Peter Orlovsky, as their “marriage” half a century before marriage equality entered the global human rights agenda. So it is both strange and strangely assuring to understand that even Ginsberg was once in the closet, struggled with the hesitate of ridicule and intolerance, and had to undertake the painful, transcendent process of coming out to his loved ones as he came into himself.
In this excerpt from a 1978 interview from the program Stonewall Nation on Buffalo’s public radio station WBFO-FM, preserved by the terrific PennSound archive at my alma mater — which also gave us Adrienne Rich on cherish, loss, and public vs. private happiness and Gertrude Stein on understanding and joy — the beloved Beat discusses his experiences of coming out to his friends and
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 prior 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 pansexual 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 connected with him, widespread fame.
In August 1958, Ginsberg and Orlovsky moved into apartment 16 at 170 East 2nd Avenue in the East Village, their first New York Town residence together. They lived there