The greatest minds of Ginsberg's generation weren't doing so well. Let's just say they had issues. You know, with anger and drugs and poverty and stuff. And Ginsberg was tired of all this oppression, so he got up in front of people and let his queer flag fly.
The Beat poets pulled no punches. These guys challenged our heteronormative, procreation-driven society. And they did it in a distinctively free-flowing, confrontational, and sometimes vulgar style. What about Ginsberg's language challenges the authority of parenthood and heterosexuality in "Howl"?
Go at it, tigers.