Practicing Desire: Homosexual Sex in the Era of AIDS

by Gary Dowsett

For more than a decade, gay men have faced a terrible crisis--the HIV epidemic and its consequence for many, AIDS. The epidemic coincided with the development of visible gay communities, distilled from cultural, political, and sexual activities, and claiming for homosexual men a recognition of the pleasures and prerogatives of same-sex love. These gay communities are substantial subcultures, often with a geographic focus and commercial infrastructure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804727112
• ISBN13: 9780804727112
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"