Search Results Featured snippet from the web One of the key beliefs and practices of the Beat Generation was free love and sexual liberation, which strayed from the Christian ideals of American culture at the time. Some Beat writers were openly gay or bisexual, including two of the most prominent (Ginsberg and Burroughs).
It helps us better understand the choices of the people before us. If we don't learn about its history then the lives lost fighting would be worthless.
