Title: Reviving the tribe : regenerating gay men's sexuality and culture in the ongoing epidemic /
Authors: Rofes, Eric E., 1954-2006
Publisher: Haworth Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Gay men Sexual behavior United States; Gay men Mental health United States.; AIDS (Disease) United States; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Abstract: Reviving the Tribe creates a rich and brutally honest portrait of contemporary gay men's lives amidst the seemingly endless AIDS epidemic and offers both autobiographical self-examination and a relentless critique of current sexual politics within the gay community. Fearlessly confronting the horrors experiences by surviving gay men without giving way to hopelessness, denial, or blame, Reviving the Tribe offers an inspiring blueprint for the gay community which faces a continuing spiral of disaster. In Reviving the Tribe, Author Eric Rofes argues that a return to the interrupted agenda of gay liberation may provide long-term motivation to keep gay men alive and spur rejuvenation of new generations of gay culture. By interweaving social history, psychology, anthropology, epidemiology, sociology, feminist theory, and sexology with his own journey through the epidemic, Rofes provides a moving and compelling argument for stepping out of the “state of emergency” and embracing a life beyond disease. He boldly offers a plan for community regeneration focused on restoring mental health, reclaiming sexuality, and mending the social fabric of communal gay life.--publisher.
Contents: I: Restoring mental health -- In the center of the cyclone -- Out of the frying pan -- Recovering the psyche of the body politic -- II: Reclaiming sexuality -- What we did and what we've become -- Lies, secrets, and sex lives -- Sodomy emerges victorious -- Sex education for the new millennium -- III: Regenerating community -- Breeding lilacs out of the dead land -- Community beyond suffering -- Discovering the invincible summer.