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Gary Wayne Dowsett
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 Practicing
Desire : Homosexual Sex in Era of AIDS by Gary W.
Dowsett
For more than a decade, gay men have faced a
terrible crisis—the HIV epidemic and its consequence for many,
AIDS. The epidemic coincided with the development of visible gay
communities, distilled from cultural, political, and sexual
activities, and claiming for homosexual men a recognition of the
pleasures and prerogatives of same-sex love. These gay communities
are substantial subcultures, often with a geographic focus and
commercial infrastructure. The same period has also seen the rise
in analyses of gay life that challenged conventional
configurations of human sexuality, and that have wrought profound
changes in such fields as medicine, history, literary criticism,
and the social sciences.
This study examines these developments in the
context of the HIV epidemic through interviews of twenty very
different men who live in Sydney’s gay community, Australia’s
largest and most visible, and in the provincial town of
Nullangardie. The men range in age from their early twenties to
sixty, in class from working class to jaded hustler, in sexual
role from drag queen to happily married bisexual. The men reveal
how they came to their homosexuality, how they understand the AIDS
crisis, and how they have reacted to the crisis in terms of their
sexual practice. The men tell their own tales, describing their
sex lives in graphic detail and uninhibited language.
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Organizations & Institutions
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and
Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
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Fields of Study
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Sexuality and Gay
Communities, Sociology |
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Sociology of HIV
Health Education |
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Social research
design using qualitative methodologies |
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Published Works
Dowsett GW (1996). Practicing
Desire: Homosexual Sex in the era of AIDS. Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press.
Kippax S, Connell RW, Dowsett GW &
Crawford J (1993). Sustaining
Safe Sex: Gay Communities Respond to AIDS. London: Falmer
Press.
Connell RW & Dowsett GW (Eds) (1993).
Rethinking
Sex: Social Theory and Sexuality Research. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press; (1992).Melbourne: Melbourne University
Press.
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Current Projects
 | HIV/AIDS prevention among male sex workers |
| Gay men who inject drugs |
| Gay community as performance |
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