Hi, i saw your post about the character that dean winchester is based on was bisexual, but who is he based on?? :))

mishcollin:

okay so sam and dean were based on sal paradise and dean moriarty from the book on the road by jack kerouac! they’re two best friends who basically travel around the entire country aimlessly and it was the most popular book of the beatnik generation in the 1950’s, which inspired kripke to create sam and dean (fun fact: sam was originally named sal and sam and dean were originally two journalist best friends, not brothers.)

dean moriarty (based on the flagrantly bisexual neal cassady, named after james dean) was bi in on the road and had sex with men as much as he had sex with women. a lot of the “racy” gay sex scenes were cut between dean and carlo and dean and sal from the original copy of OTR.

(also this is a weird fun fact so william burroughs—one of jack kerouac’s beatnik writer friends and who the character “Old Bull” is based on in OTR—lived on my aunt and uncle’s street in Lawrence KS. weeeeird huh?)