Policing public sex : queer politics and the future of AIDS activism / edited by Dangerous Bedfellows.

Other author Colter, Ephen Glenn, 1968-
Other author Dangerous Bedfellows.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston, MA : South End Press, ©1996.
Description416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Prologue / Lisa Duggan -- Introduction / Dangerous Bedfellows Part I: Public sex. Sex club owners: the [fuck suck] buck stops here / Jay Blotcher -- The Twilight (zone) of commercial sex / David Serlin -- Going public: a conversation with Lidell Jackson and Jocelyn Taylor / Kendall Thomas -- Public space for public sex / John Lindell -- Talking with my mouth full / SCott O'Hara.
Contents Part II: Aids activism. Dangerous practices: ideological uses of the 'second wave' / Alison Redick -- I was a teenage HIV prevention activist / Stephen Gendin -- Why we stopped doing primary prevention for gay men in 1985 / Walt Odets -- Discernibly turgid: safer sex and public policy / Ephen Glenn Colter -- An AIDS vaccine: it's possible. So why isn't it being done? / Mark Schoofs.
Contents Part III: Policing sexuality. The History of gay bathhouses / Allan Bérubé -- Bathhouses and brothels: symbolic sties in discourse and practice / Priscilla Alexander -- P.I.M.P. (Prostitues in municipal politics) / Carol Leigh -- From soubrette row to show world: the contested sexualities of Times Square, 1880-1995 / Timothy J. Gilfoyle -- The D.O.H. papers: regulating public sex in New York City / Marc E. Elovitz and P.J. Edwards.
Contents Part IV: Queer politics. Seducing women into 'a lifestyle of vaginal fisting': lesbian sex gets virtually dangerous / Amber Hollibaugh -- Skippiung the life fantastic: coming of age in the sexual devolution / Wayne Hoffman -- José Esteban Muñoz / Ghosts of public sex: utopian longings, queer memories / Domesticating partnerships / Eva Pendleton -- Epilogue: calculating the risk / Andrew Ross.
General noteEdited by Ephen Glenn Colter and others.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 405-408) and index.
LCCN 96012714
ISBN0896085503 (cloth)
ISBN089608549X (paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ76.3.U5 P64 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold