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  title info:
    title: Sexual ecology
    sub title: AIDS and the destiny of gay men
  name:
    name part: Rotello, Gabriel
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 320 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: Rotello, an award-winning journalist and long-time AIDS activist, has done in this book something no writer has done before. Weaving together the strands of ecology theory, epidemiology, and sexual politics, he shows how the AIDS epidemic, like other epidemics from influenza and bubonic plague to today's rapidly emerging viruses - result as much from human behaviors as from specific microbes. He argues convincingly that AIDS was probably an old and rare disease syndrome in humans that erupted into an epidemic only when cultural changes - including the gay male sexual revolution of the seventies - created ideal conditions for its evolution and spread.
  abstract: For the first time ever, Rotello describes in detail the surprising scientific consensus about why, precisely, AIDS hit gay men so hard. Rebutting both the left's position that AIDS was merely an accident, and simplistic right-wing theories that blame promiscuity alone, Rotello presents the compelling but troubling verdict embraced by epidemiologists: AIDS was spread by a fusion of factors built right into the fabric of urban gay life after Stonewall. Turning to current research, Rotello explains how and why researchers believe a "second wave" of the epidemic is saturating gay men despite widespread AIDS awareness and condom use. And he provides compelling evidence that if the current lack of ecological awareness continues, our best chance of containing the epidemic with newly available drug therapies could be squandered.
  table of contents: Introduction: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men -- Ch. 1. The Birth of AIDS -- Ch. 2. Gay Sexual Ecology -- Ch. 3. The Synergy of Plagues -- Ch. 4. The Birth of the Condom Code -- Ch. 5. The "Second Wave" -- Ch. 6. Surfing the Second Wave -- Ch. 7. The Ecology of "Heterosexual AIDS" -- Ch. 8. Holistic Prevention -- Ch. 9. Imagining a Sustainable Culture -- Ch. 10. Building Incentives into Gay Culture -- Ch. 11. The Stakes.
  note: Gabriel Rotello.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is inscribed by the author.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-310) and index.
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
    topic: Health and hygiene
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
    topic: Epidemiology
  subject:
    topic: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
    topic: epidemiology
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuality, Male
  subject:
    topic: Sexual Behavior
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
    topic: Health and hygiene
  subject:
    topic: Syndrome d'immunodéficience acquise
    topic: Épidémiologie
  subject:
    topic: Homosexualité masculine
  subject:
    topic: Comportement sexuel
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
    topic: Health and hygiene
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
  classification: RA644.A25 R68 1997
  classification: 362.1/969792/0086642
  classification: 1997 D-747
  classification: WC 503.41 R843s 1997
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Sexual ecology
    name:
      name part: Rotello, Gabriel.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, ©1997
    identifier: (OCoLC)665226893
  identifier: 0525941649
  identifier: 9780525941644
  identifier: 96049706
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 961107
    record change date: 20210419133510.0
    record identifier: in00001357027
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng