Gay Community Survival in the New Millennium
Understand the international challenges facing gay male societies!\ This eye-opening account examines the idealistic, structural, and emotional meanings of community within the gay population. Gay Community Survival in the New Millennium explores the concept of “gay community” as well as the problems and progress that these communities are facing in the United States, Canada, and Israel. As a community leader, gay rights advocate, or policymaker, you will gain insight into issues that must be...
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Explores fractures in the gay community that must be addressed to ensure progress in the gay liberation movements. Looks at ethnic and racial divisions, the rift between HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay men, and the effect of AIDS-phobia on gay communities. Draws lessons from the Israeli gay rights movement, and urges regional gay and AIDS social organizations to band together. Botnick teaches sociology at the University of British Columbia, and is a research associate with the British Columbia Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Co-published simultaneously as , vol. 38, no. 4, 2000. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Introduction Community in Gay Male Experience and Moral Discourse Part 1: HIV as 'The Line in the Sand' Part 2: Fear of Contagion, Fear of Intimacy Part 3: A Community Divided From Terra Incognita (ital) to Terra Firma (ital): The Logbook of the Voyage of Gay Men's Community into the Israeli Public Sphere Index Reference Notes Included
