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Born in Lowell, Massachusetts into working class French-Canadian parents, Kerouac aspired to be a writer from a young age, though he was also a kerouac football player. Most significantly, descriptions of sexual acts deemed obscene by s standards were watered down or deleted entirely, such as an early passage describing the fledgling relationship between Ginsberg and Cassady:.

Posted by richardwatts at pm Email This BlogThis! No comments:. ‘As a homophobic homoerotic, he denied enjoying sex with men, but continued to have it,’ Kerouac’s editor turned biographer Ellis Amburn wrote in Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac.

Clearly Kerouac was smitten by Cassady, making him the hero of another book, Visions of Codyas well as On the Road. Unlike the initial press accounts of Carr, Jack Kerouac’s sexuality was never in question; nearly every article noted that the handsome Kerouac was soon to be married.

Certainly Kerouac was no stranger to the occasional same-sex encounter, according to Allen Ginsberg in a interview in the magazine Gay Sunshine :. Gay Post Older Post Home. Indeed, it was a football scholarship to Columbia University which initially drew him to New York, where he first met the young poet and visionary Allen Ginsberg, heroin addict and aspiring author William S.

Burroughs, and most importantly, the charismatic, sexually rapacious car thief Neal Cassady, who would become his muse. It was a purely financial transaction, Moriarty explains afterwards to a sulking Paradise; a jack return to his hustling days driven entirely by economic need.

Beyond that — who knows? He once blew me, years later. We may never know if Kerouac and Cassady were ever lovers in the physical sense of the word, but the facts of their gay feeder friendship are undeniable.

The first person I told about it was Kerouac, cause I was in love with him … And actually we wound up sleeping together maybe within a year, a couple of times. It was sort of sweet, peaceful. But for Kerouac — poor, Catholic-guilt laden Kerouac — his same-sex attraction was a matter of personal shame.

I blew him, I guess. Cassady himself was frank about his sexuality, as his letter to Ginsberg dated April 10,makes plain:. Of all the Beat Generation writers, Jack Kerouac, author of the autobiographical beatnik bible, On the Roadis unequivocally the most famous.

Jack Kerouac, author of the oft-quoted and long-emulated semi-autobiographical book On the Road was known as the ‘King of the Beats’.

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The young Neal Cassady in his mug shot. This title references a generation of young people emerging from the shambles of war, in search of something greater than themselves. The search for a father is a vital theme in the scroll, even more so than in the version published in This is a theme that has always interested me, and it became one of the motors driving the adaptation.

Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. Post a Comment. But were the two men ever lovers in real life, or was their relationship simply a particularly intense friendship — what today we might call a bromance?