Editing Beat Generation (section)

===Sexuality===
One of the key beliefs and practices of the Beat Generation was free love and sexual liberation,<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Type Writer Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation|last=Morgan|first=Bill|publisher=Counterpoint|year=2011|location=Berkeley, CA}}</ref> which strayed from the Christian ideals of American culture at the time.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Prothero|first=Stephen|year=1991|title=On the Holy Road: The Beat Movement as Spiritual Protest|journal=The Harvard Theological Review|volume=84|issue=2|pages=205–222|doi=10.1017/S0017816000008166|s2cid=162913767 }}</ref> Some Beat writers were openly gay or bisexual, including two of the most prominent (Ginsberg<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last=Hemmer|editor-first=Kurt|title=Encyclopedia of Beat Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediabeat00hemm|url-access=limited|publisher=[[Facts On File, Inc.]]|date=2007|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediabeat00hemm/page/n123 111]|isbn=978-0-8160-4297-5|quote=These early books, too, are windows into the poet's efforts to find a place for his homosexual identity in the repressive pre-Stonewall United States.}}</ref> and Burroughs<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last=Hemmer|editor-first=Kurt|title=Encyclopedia of Beat Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediabeat00hemm|url-access=limited|publisher=Facts On File, Inc.|date=2007|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediabeat00hemm/page/n44 32]|isbn=978-0-8160-4297-5|quote=And then, before the end of the decade, Burroughs had gone—leaving cold-war America to escape his criminalization as a homosexual and drug addict, to begin 25 years of expatriation.}}</ref>). However, the first novel does show Cassady as frankly promiscuous. Kerouac's novels feature an interracial love affair (''[[The Subterraneans]]''), and group sex (''[[The Dharma Bums]]''). The relationships among men in Kerouac's novels are predominately [[homosociality|homosocial]].<ref name="blogspot2">{{Cite web|url=http://notsogentlereader.blogspot.com/2009/07/hetero-and-homo-social-relationships-in.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106174932/http://notsogentlereader.blogspot.com/2009/07/hetero-and-homo-social-relationships-in.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 6, 2013|title=Hetero- and Homo-Social Relationships in Jack Kerouac's On the Road|work=Not-So-Gentle Reader blog|access-date=2014-11-30|date=July 23, 2009}}</ref>