i don't know if it was hoffman, and allen ginsberg and brought the son, jack, to denounce him. i mean, most made up over the years, but people hated leery for years after that. >> did you talk to jack? >> i trieded to. >> [inaudible] >> i tried to. yeah, i got -- i found the phone number, and i called him, and he didn't respond. he was not given -- somebody told me he might be writing his own book. i don't know if that's true. he -- every time he's been quoted about this, e he doesn't like how it comes out. it's a complicated relationship. he never really recop -- reconciled with his father: there's a bit about that in the book. people there at the death bed say, you know, they thought they reconciled, but from jack's point of view, they never -- that's my understanding. i did not talk to him. >> [inaudible] >> actually, i said it didn't start out with the acid rock sound track, but it became that. when the movie is made, and, by the way, it might be -- [laughter] getting some calls, anyway, the sound track, you know, would be incredible because, well, john lennon read "the psy

the first generation of writers, gore vidal, truman capote, allen ginsberg, james baldwin, christopher, that took a lot of flak. the next generation had a much easier. edmund white, armistead, marketability, and tony kuchar. these people began to be accepted as equals, as major literary figures. so i was going to read to you a section tonight, today, sorry, about gore vidal. and gore vidal, at the democratic convention of 1968, and you'll see how one story leads to another injury. i'm beginning someplace and now in someplace different. christopher dedicate his novel to gore vidal. vidal was honored. but in the meantime he paid his friend a higher complex of competing with them. shortly after his singl manager, gore vidal went gore vidal went back to his old novel, 1948, revised and reissued it as if to establish his position as the first chronicles of kate american life. it was published in 1965, year after a single man, and included an afterword where he explain why he wrote the novel and offered his strongest statement to date about sexuality. i decided to examine homosexual underwor

others like tennessee williams cannot later, up i should say, allen ginsberg came out. he asked why are you always writing about homosexuality and he would say because i am a homosexual. he actually, i think, was the first, even to the point of who's who who is who in america, he looked at his partner as this is my lover. this is my husband. and i think he really was the first. >> wasn't allen ginsberg arrested for some of his poetry? >> his book, when it was published, it was put on trial or obscenities. ginsberg was on a trip. it was his publisher, lauren sterling get a publisher, lauren sterling getty, a straight man who loves good poetry and got behind this book of poems, who went on trial. and he became national news, the late 1955. and it was a book of poetry. because of this trial, because it had gotten major news coverage, newspapers, the book of poetry became a bestseller seller. it was small, but the title point was great. which was, this was just raw and powerful, words and energy, which included gay sexuality in a very matter-of-fact way. they got all this a