Research Catalog

Title

Dry bones breathe : gay men creating post-AIDS identities and cultures / Eric Rofes.

Author

Rofes, Eric E., 1954-2006

Publication

New York : Haworth Press, c1998.

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Details

Description

xii, 352 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies

Uniform Title

Haworth gay & lesbian studies

Subject

• Gay community > United States
• Gay men > United States > Psychology
• Gay people > United States > Identity
• Gay men > United States > Attitudes
• AIDS (Disease) in mass media
• AIDS (Disease) in literature
• Protease inhibitors
• Gay men > United States > Identity
• Homosexuality, Male > psychology
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > psychology
• Attitude to Health
• Mass Media
• Protease Inhibitors
• Social Identification

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-340) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

In the Aftermath of Decimation -- Now That It's Over -- Harbingers of a New Era -- What It Was Like and What It's Like Now -- Mass Exodus from the State of Emergency -- Dry Bones Breathe -- The Protease Moment Takes Hold -- Relief, Hope, and Proliferating Possibilities -- The Incredible Shrinking Obituary Pages -- What We Mean When We Say "The AIDS Crisis Is Over" -- Marketing the Protease Moment -- Making Magic of Pharmaceuticals -- The Mixed-Status Couple Faces the Protease Moment -- Putting All Our Eggs in the Protease Basket -- Between AIDS-As-Crisis and AIDS-As-Over -- Our First Deep Breath in Twenty Years -- Creating Post-AIDS Lives -- Death, Departure, and Diversification Create New Epidemic Events -- Long-Term Uninfected Gay Men: Lost Generation or Post-AIDS Pioneers? -- Gay Men of Color: Building Communities Amid Multiple Threats -- Young Gay Men: Constructing Identities Beyond Crisis -- Vacating the Bomb Shelters -- Rural Gay Men: Forging Connections Within Local Epidemic Contexts -- HIV-Positive Gay Men: Postcrisis, Awaiting Crisis, and in Crisis -- Scrutinizing Space Aliens -- Sex After Crisis -- Don't Fuck with Gay Culture -- Springtime in San Francisco -- Seeing Dick, Dick, and Only Dick: Larry Kramer's "Sex and Sensibility" -- Michelangelo Signorile: Sound-Bite Solutions to Complex Social Problems -- Self-Esteem versus Social Change: San Francisco's Health Professionals Check In -- Why Is Gay Culture Being Censured at This Time? -- Reducing American Culture to Let's Make a Deal -- Scapegoating Circuit Boys.

ISBN

• 0789004704 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1560239344 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98009555^

OCLC

• 38288586
• SCSB-10744874

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library