Love undetectable
Subtitle: notes on friendship, sex, and survival
By: Andrew Sullivan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Gay men -- United States -- Social conditions.; Gay men -- United States -- Sexual behavior.; AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States.; HIV infections -- Patients -- United States.; Homosexuality -- United States -- Public opinion.; Public opinion -- United States.
Description: "I intend to be among the first generation that survives this disease." That was former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan's first public statement about his HIV diagnosis. Speaking to heterosexual and homosexual audiences alike, this book is about the first steps in that journey of survival.

In a memoir in the form of three essays, Sullivan asks hard questions about his own life and others'. Can the practice of friendship ever compensate for a life without love? Is sex at war or at peace with spirituality? Can faith endure the randomness of death? Is homosexuality genetic or environmental?

In a work destined to be controversial, Sullivan takes on religious authorities and gay activists; talks candidly about his own promiscuity and search for love; revisits Freud in the origins of homosexuality; and makes one of the more memorable modern cases for elevating the virtue of friendship over the satisfactions of love.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-255).