Health issues confronting minority men who have sex with men
By: Sana Loue, editor.
Contributors: Loue, Sana.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780387745381
Subjects: Gay men -- Health and hygiene; Gay men -- Medical care
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Identities. Defining men who have sex with men (MSM) / Sana Loue; title: Portrait one. Rebirth: evolution of a gender / Travis A. Garry; title: Portrait two. ¿De donde? / Hank Ramirez; title: Portrait three. Untitled / Christina Caruth; title: pt. 2. Sexual abuse. Childhood sexual abuse and its sequelae among latino gay and bisexual men / Sonya Grant Arreola; title: Portrait four. May and December: dangerous intimacies / L. Michael Gipson; title: pt. 3. Mental illness and substance abuse. Body image disturbance and its related disorders / Leslie J. Heinberg and Chris Kraft; title: Portrait five. Cutting / Anonymous; title: Substance use among minority men who have sex with men / Sana Loue and Jaroslaw Richard Romaniuk; title: pt. 4. Homelessness. Homelessness among substance using minority men who have sex with men / James M. Holbrook; title: "My body and my spirit took care of me": homelessness, violence, and resilience among American Indian two-spirit men / Karina L. Walters ... [et al.]; title: pt. 5. HIV/AIDS. National trends in HIV transmission among minority men who have sex with men / Daniel J. O'Shea; title: HIV/AIDS in Cleveland: a case study of one community / David Bruckman; title: pt. 6. Multiple minority status and stigma. Why tell? Serostatus disclosure and HIV stigma among HIV seropositive Asians and Pacific Islander men who have sex with men in New York City / Ezer Kang and Bruce D. Rapkin; title: Disclosure of HIV status and mental health among Latino men who have sex with men / Maria Cecilia Zea; title: pt. 7. Building community. The Beyond Identities Community Center (BICC): a community-focused, rights-based program to address HIV/AIDS and sexual health among young men of color in Cleveland, Ohio / Tracy Jones and Earl Pike; title: Portrait six. For Jayla / L. Michael Gipson; title: Portrait seven. Rage of betrayal / Erik Bradford; title: Portrait eight. Community commitment / Various.