Download or read book Queer Beats written by Regina Marler and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying fiction, poetry, and letters from the Beat writers, this introduction to the sexual reverberations created by this literary movement in the 1940s and 1950s reveals how gay writers were often the people encouraging sexual freedom and experimentation during this period. Original.