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Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures
Dry Bones Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures breaks new ground in offering an original and insightful interpretation of gay men’s shifting experience of the AIDS epidemic. From Dry Bones Breathe, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of current community debates focused on circuit parties, unprotected sex, and gay men’s sexual cultures, and you will learn how social, political, and biomedical changes are dramatically transforming gay identities and cultures.
Dry Bones Breathe is Eric Rofes’explosive follow-up to Reviving the Tribe, a book which broke open debates in gay communities around the world about sex, identity, and gay men’s relationship to AIDS. In this volume, Rofes contends that most gay men no longer experience AIDS as the crisis they did during the 1980s. Gay men often attribute this shift to the advent of protozoa inhibitors, but Rofes explains how other factors, including the epidemic’s predicted trajectory, new treatments for opportunistic infections, the passage of time, and the increasing diversity of gay men inhabiting communities throughout the country have set in motion the transformation of gay life.
AIDS organizations and gay leaders, however, continue to assert that gay men experience AIDS as an emergency, resulting in a tremendous dissonance between gay leaders and their communities. In the midst of this controversy, Dry Bones Breathe lets you share in stories of hope and recovery and a new vision for AIDS work that demands a radical redesign of prevention, care, and activism. Dry Bones Breathe tackles several other issues concerning the powerful shifts occurring in gay communities and cultures
Dry Bones Breathe is Eric Rofes’explosive follow-up to Reviving the Tribe, a book which broke open debates in gay communities around the world about sex, identity, and gay men’s relationship to AIDS. In this volume, Rofes contends that most gay men no longer experience AIDS as the crisis they did during the 1980s. Gay men often attribute this shift to the advent of protozoa inhibitors, but Rofes explains how other factors, including the epidemic’s predicted trajectory, new treatments for opportunistic infections, the passage of time, and the increasing diversity of gay men inhabiting communities throughout the country have set in motion the transformation of gay life.
AIDS organizations and gay leaders, however, continue to assert that gay men experience AIDS as an emergency, resulting in a tremendous dissonance between gay leaders and their communities. In the midst of this controversy, Dry Bones Breathe lets you share in stories of hope and recovery and a new vision for AIDS work that demands a radical redesign of prevention, care, and activism. Dry Bones Breathe tackles several other issues concerning the powerful shifts occurring in gay communities and cultures
- GenresLGBTQueerNonfiction
372 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1981
About the author
Eric Rofes
17 books3 followersEric Rofes was a gay activist, educator, and author. He was a director of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center in the 1980s. In 1989, he became executive director of the Shanti Project, a nonprofit AIDS service organization. He was a professor of Education at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, and served on the board of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. He wrote or edited twelve books. One of his last projects was co-creating "Gay Men's Health Leadership Academies" to combat what he saw as a "pathology-focused understanding of gay men" in safe-sex education.
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September 24, 2016
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First English because it's written in that language. In this book, Eric Roses tries to make an analysis of mainly male gay culture and how it changed after the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 80's and first half of the 90's.
In reality the author focus more on the AIDS organizations, but yeah. Here he reviews how gay men had to change their behaviours constantly, how the meanings of everyday life changed and how some cultural aspects came to modify the so called gay community, while saying that there's not such thing as a one gay community, but lots of them. He calls it a post-AIDS by saying that the new drugs that appeared in the mid 90's changed the way gay men perceived HIV and how it stopped from being a 100% death sentence, to a manageable illness.
He speaks about his own experiences, but he goes way too explicit with the sexual encounters wich, even if they were entertaining, a lot of the time they felt off topic.
Anyway, a really nice book to learn more on post AIDS crisis everyday life of gay men in America and how it was perceived by one of them.
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En este libro, Eric Rofes trata de hacer un análisis principalmente de la cultura gay masculina después de la crisis dela VIH/SIDA de los 80's y 90's.
En realidad, el autor se concentra más en criticar las organizaciones pro SIDA pero bueno. Él habla acerca de cómo los hombres gays tuvieron que cambiar sus conductas constantemente, como los significados de la vida cotidiana cambiaron y como otros aspectos culturales modificaron a la llamada comunidad gay, aunque él argumenta que no existe una sola comunidad, sino muchas. Llama a los 90's una época post-SIDA porque los medicamentos nuevos cambiaron la forma en que se veía a la enfermedad ya que pasó de ser una sentencia de muerte segura, a una enfermedad manejable.
Eric habla de sus propias experiencias, pero menciona sus encuentros sexual es muy explícitamente y, aunque eran bastante entretenidos, muchas veces se sentían fuera de lugar.
Un buen libro para analizar la cultura gay masculina durante los 90's en Estados Unidos, y cómo estás personas cambiaron su percepción del SIDA
First English because it's written in that language. In this book, Eric Roses tries to make an analysis of mainly male gay culture and how it changed after the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 80's and first half of the 90's.
In reality the author focus more on the AIDS organizations, but yeah. Here he reviews how gay men had to change their behaviours constantly, how the meanings of everyday life changed and how some cultural aspects came to modify the so called gay community, while saying that there's not such thing as a one gay community, but lots of them. He calls it a post-AIDS by saying that the new drugs that appeared in the mid 90's changed the way gay men perceived HIV and how it stopped from being a 100% death sentence, to a manageable illness.
He speaks about his own experiences, but he goes way too explicit with the sexual encounters wich, even if they were entertaining, a lot of the time they felt off topic.
Anyway, a really nice book to learn more on post AIDS crisis everyday life of gay men in America and how it was perceived by one of them.
____________
En este libro, Eric Rofes trata de hacer un análisis principalmente de la cultura gay masculina después de la crisis dela VIH/SIDA de los 80's y 90's.
En realidad, el autor se concentra más en criticar las organizaciones pro SIDA pero bueno. Él habla acerca de cómo los hombres gays tuvieron que cambiar sus conductas constantemente, como los significados de la vida cotidiana cambiaron y como otros aspectos culturales modificaron a la llamada comunidad gay, aunque él argumenta que no existe una sola comunidad, sino muchas. Llama a los 90's una época post-SIDA porque los medicamentos nuevos cambiaron la forma en que se veía a la enfermedad ya que pasó de ser una sentencia de muerte segura, a una enfermedad manejable.
Eric habla de sus propias experiencias, pero menciona sus encuentros sexual es muy explícitamente y, aunque eran bastante entretenidos, muchas veces se sentían fuera de lugar.
Un buen libro para analizar la cultura gay masculina durante los 90's en Estados Unidos, y cómo estás personas cambiaron su percepción del SIDA
November 20, 2015
This is a somewhat weird book because its written at the emergence of "post-AIDS" as an idea although it also is sort of washy on "what Eric Rofes thinks is important about this dialog" and instead hops around a lot on "what is sort of happening" with a lot of Eric Rofes personal sex history presented as a case in point?
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