Smearing the Queer
Discover how gay men’s health care can be improved!\ Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men explores how social prejudices embedded in scientific research and practice often act as a detriment to gay men’s health. This book provides an agenda for addressing heterosexism in the health sciences and in medical care while broadening approaches to gay male wellness beyond the limited scope of HIV infection. This groundbreaking book explore a number of neglected concerns...
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Smearing the Queer explores how social prejudices embedded in scientific research and practice often work as a detriment to gay men's health. This book provides an agenda for addressing heterosexism in the health sciences and in medical care while broadening approaches to gay male wellness beyond the limiting scope of HIV infection. This groundbreaking book explores a number of neglected concerns affecting the sexual health of gay men, calling for the recognition of their scientific, political, and cultural significance. Readers will appreciate the in-depth examination of topics such as: research and development on rectal microbicides; why many gay men should be receiving periodic anal Pap smears to screen for anorectal cancer; a critique of the problematic medical diagnosis of "Gay Bowel Syndrome;" gay men's use of the Reality Female Condom for anal sex; Viagra's impact on gay men's sexual cultures, erectile dysfunction, and recreational drug use; a broad-based advocacy agenda for improving relations between gay men and the health sciences; and the politics surrounding gay men's restricted access to new and prospective safer sex technologies. Journal of the American Medical Association Smearing the Queer remains an innovative, in-depth look at the issues facing homosexual men and, consequently, their health care providers. Its sensitive and thorough approach to the scientific, political, and social issues involved in this provocative topic, as well as its useful suggestions for work to be done in the future, are enough to overcome its shortcomings. If one can acknowledge its dual purposes of drawing attention to the topic using shock-value techniques and educating with scientific inquiry, it makes a very interesting and recommended read.
ForewordxiAcknowledgmentsxvIntroduction: Fucking with Technology1Section ISmear as DefamationDr. Kazal's Ace in the Hole9Chapter 1.Harbinger of Plague: A Bad Case of Gay Bowel Syndrome11Gaying the Bowel19Siting the Bowel23Speaking in Syndromes24Dual Diagnoses27Prevention28In the Bowels of the Other29AIDS and Gay Bowel Syndrome: Causation, Correlation, and Conflation32The Homosexual Menace: Gay Bowel Syndrome As Grounds for Antigay Discrimination36Conclusions41Section IISmearing to Spread a Wet SubstanceThe Plumber's Applause49Chapter 2.Gay Men and the Female Condom: Is Rectal Reality Getting a Bum Wrap?51Historical Reality53Sexual Governance56Feminizing Safer Sex Technology59Instructing the Anus62Queering Reality68The San Francisco Controversy73The Appropriateness of Appropriation77Threadbare Back83Chapter 3.Condomless Condoms: The Politics and Prospects of Rectal Microbicides85The Need for Rectal Harm Reduction87Rectal Microbicide Research and Development95Gendered and Anatomical Comparisons98Types of Microbicides101Prospective Politics104Left to Our Own Devices108Section IIIThe Smear for Microscopic ExaminationA Recipe for Rectal Tarts (or, Just Add Feces and Stir)113Chapter 4.Queering the Smear: A Detective Named Pap115Carcinogenic Homosexuality118Smearing the Anus121Behind the Screen122Comparative Sex128Negotiating the Smear133Adviser135Chapter 5.Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Viagra Use Among Gay Men137Recreational Erections141Sex As a Class Act144Criminal Aids and Criminal AIDS145Conversion Therapy: Bottoms Become Tops147How Hard Is Hard Enough?149Real Men Don't Need Viagra151Section IVClearing the SmearImmaculate Infection157Chapter 6.Heterocopulative Syndrome: Clinico-Pathologic Correlation in 260 Cases159Problem and Literature Review160Method161Results162Discussion162Conclusion163Chapter 7.Smear-Resistant Strategies165Notes173Index189
\ Journal of the American Medical AssociationSmearing the Queer remains an innovative, in-depth look at the issues facing homosexual men and, consequently, their health care providers. Its sensitive and thorough approach to the scientific, political, and social issues involved in this provocative topic, as well as its useful suggestions for work to be done in the future, are enough to overcome its shortcomings. If one can acknowledge its dual purposes of drawing attention to the topic using shock-value techniques and educating with scientific inquiry, it makes a very interesting and recommended read.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsThis volume explores the ways that social prejudices embedded in scientific research and practice have come to harm gay men's health. Scarce, coordinator of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resources at the University of California, San Francisco, provides a specific plan for improving health care for gay men, specifically through addressing heterosexism in the health sciences and by broadening the scope of wellness for gay men beyond HIV infection. He addresses issues such as prevention and screening for anorectal cancer; alternatives for safe sex, including the use of the Reality Female Condom; and the problematic diagnosis "gay bowel syndrome." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \ \ Walter ArmstrongSmearing the Queer is just what the doctor ordered -- or should. A work of subtle analysis and great originality, this display of what's antigay in the health sciences manages also to be funny, sexy, moving, and above all, necessary to guide the future of gay men's health. Scarce is a visionary. \ — POZ Magazine\ \
