Beat legend, ‘boy lover’: how should we reckon with Allen Ginsberg’s complex legacy?

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Beat legend, ‘boy lover’: how should we reckon with Allen Ginsberg’s complex legacy?

As a series of star-studded events celebrates Ginsberg’s centennial, the keeper of his estate weighs the genius poetry – and provocative views – of the iconic writer In 1985 Allen Ginsberg sat his 17-year-old friend, an out gay man named Peter Hale, down and gave some advice: “Get a wife, settle down, and have kids.” At the time, Hale was enrolled in a summer program at Naropa University, a Buddhism-inspired college …