Stayin' alive
Subtitle: the invention of safe sex, a personal history
By: Richard Berkowitz.
Contributors: Berkowitz, Richard, 1955-
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Berkowitz, Richard, -- 1955-; Sonnabend, Joseph A.; Callen, Michael, -- 1955-1993.; Safe sex in AIDS prevention -- United States -- History.; AIDS (Disease) -- United States -- Prevention -- History.; Gay journalists -- United States -- Biography.; Gay activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.; AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Biography.; Gay men and AIDS.; Gay men -- Sexuality.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Staying alive
Description: "The concept of "safe sex" was born out of the tireless crusading, politicking, and advocacy of an unlikely trio whose lives revolved around sex and the consequences of sex: the author, the AIDS researcher and physician Joseph Sonnabend, and the late author, activist, and singer Michael Callen. Berkowitz recounts how their work found a way to enable a generation of gay men and sexually adventurous heterosexuals to continue celebrating their sexuality without risking their lives or the lives of their partners - in two words, "safe sex.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Appendix, "How to have sex in an epidemic : one approach," originally published in 1983.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-226) and index.