Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures

By Eric Rofes

Book Overview

Dry Bones Breathe: 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560239344
• ISBN13: 9781560239345
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Truly smart writing about gay culture.

Rofes look at gay life and culture--including his own--is the most refreshing take on gay male sexuality I have read in ten years. Yes, he takes on other gay writers, but he takes on their ideas, he doesn't attack them. His insights into the AIDS crisis, and how gay men are adjusting to a post-crisis era, are profoundly moving. I would recommend this book to anyone who's had it with scoldings from gay white puritans and reactive posturing of gay radicals. Rofes occupies the sensible center of the new sex wars, and does so with grace, tact, and style. A very important book.