Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism

✍ Scribed by Dangerous Bedfellows, Ephen Glenn Colter

Publisher: South End Press
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 406
Series: Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Studies
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

As some activists have turned to regulation rather than education in the effort to curb the AIDS epidemic, the public culture at the foundation of queer culture has come under attack.

✦ Table of 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. 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. Part III: Policing sexuality. The history of gay bathhouses / Allan Bérubé --
Bathhouses and brothels : symbolic sites 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. Part IV: Queer politics. Seducing women into 'a lifestyle of vaginal fisting' : lesbian sex gets virtually dangerous / Amber Hollibaugh --
Skipping 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.

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