{"product_id":"dry-bones-breathe-9781560239345","title":"Dry Bones Breathe","description":"\u003cp\u003eDry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures breaks new ground in offering an original and insightful interpretation of gay mens shifting experience of the AIDS epidemic. From Dry Bones Breathe  youll gain a deeper understanding of current community debates focused on circuit parties  unprotected sex  and gay mens sexual cultures  and you will learn how social  political  and biomedical changes are dramatically transforming gay identities and cultures.Dry Bones Breathe is Eric Rofesexplosive follow-up to Reviving the Tribe  a book which broke open debates in gay communities around the world about sex  identity  and gay mens relationship to AIDS. In this volume  Rofes contends that most gay men no longer experience AIDS as the crisis they did during the 1980s. Gay men often attribute this shift to the advent of protozoa inhibitors  but Rofes explains how other factors  including the epidemics predicted trajectory  new treatments for opportunistic infections  the passage of time  and the increasing diversity of gay men inhabiting communities throughout the country have set in motion the transformation of gay life. AIDS organizations and gay leaders  however  continue to assert that gay men experience AIDS as an emergency  resulting in a tremendous dissonance between gay leaders and their communities. In the midst of this controversy  Dry Bones Breathe lets you share in stories of hope and recovery and a new vision for AIDS work that demands a radical redesign of prevention  care  and activism. Dry Bones Breathe tackles several other issues concerning the powerful shifts occurring in gay communities and cultures by: explaining why an understanding of the terms post-AIDS and post-crisis is crucial to interpreting contemporary gay male cultures and what Australian prevention theorists have to offer gay men in the United States describing the Protozoa Moment and exploring how a dangerous obsession with pharmaceuticals is leading many to mistakenly attribute all changes in gay mens cultures to combination therapies examining the writings of Larry Kramer  Andrew Sullivan  Michelangelo Signorile  and Gabriel Rightly to illustrate how the crisis construct has unleashed a backlash against gay sexual cultures discussing the dramatic diminution in gay mens AIDS-related deaths in epicenter cities and the impact of shrinking obituary pages on gay mens mental health exploring the diverse relationships to the epidemic forged by young gay men  gay men of color  gay men from rural or small towns  and middle-aged men not infected with HI detailing how HI prevention and service organizations targeting gay men must redesign their mission and restructure their work In response to continuing efforts to direct gay men back into a state of emergency  Dry Bones Breathe suggests that long-term prevention efforts must be constructed around something other than a crisis. While AIDS organizations look at gay mens diminished participation in AIDS activism  Rofes argues that these organizations should face how they have distanced themselves from the reality of most gay mens lives. From stories and experiences full of hope  anger  sadness  and strength  Dry Bones Breathe will teach you about gay men who no longer base their identities and cultures solely around AIDS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648012247093,"sku":"ByrdShop_1560239344","price":70.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781560239345.jpg?v=1781706312","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dry-bones-breathe-9781560239345","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}