The HIV-Negative Gay Man

Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-Being

Steven Ball

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780789005229
• eBook ISBN: 9781317994640
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: AIDS & HIV

In The HIV-Negative Gay Man: Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-Being, you'll get instant access to some of the most recent information on the market today about remaining HIV-negative. You'll come in contact with a wealth of information concerning the psychosocial and psychosexual needs of HIV-negative gay men and discover strategies for staying uninfected and cultivating a meaningful way of life in the face of HIV/AIDS.Compiled by both professionals and peers, The HIV-Negative Gay Man goes to the front-lines of HIV prevention to help you understand the most beneficial and dependable ways of preserving the value of life and living it to the fullest. Radically reshaping and rehumanizing traditional HIV prevention efforts, these updated and personalized approaches will give you many individual strategies for survival in a world in which the link between sex and survival has been turned upside-down. You'll find new ways to expand and enrich your own coping repertoire as you explore these topics:

• how the HIV-negative gay man's complex emotional reactions change
• what peer groups can do when creating and experimenting with new identities and roles
• when group work needs to be short-term or long-term
• why a sex life vocabulary needs to be built
• where Latino Men can learn critical thinking about internalized homophobia and transgression survival mechanisms
• changing attitudes as a result of the development of protease inhibitors and new drug therapies in HIV preventionIn The HIV-Negative Gay Man, you'll find that the road to survival is a long one but a road that can be travelled and enjoyed if the right strategies are applied. This book is a "road map" for survival. In it, you'll meet many brave professionals who are currently fighting on the front lines of HIV prevention and coming forward to share their own personal stories of survival. In turn, you'll learn from them and eventually tell your own survival story to someone else along the way.

Index

Notes:	For the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services co-published version of this book: the page numbers for subjects indexed from the Foreword are enclosed in square brakets, e.g., xiii[xvii].
	Page numbers preceded by mentioned denotes intermittent discussion of subject on each inclusive page.

Abstinence xvi[xx], 10

African Americans 49, 99, 104–105

Age groups. See also Youth

men out before epidemic onset 27–28, 36, 49

new serconversions among 84

therapy group homogeneity of 33–34, 40

and unsafe sex 85

AIDS activism, as socialization for gay men 3

AIDS discourse, critical analysis of aspects of

of HIV disease 89–90

of HIV prevention strategies and messages 92–101

of identity/behavior 87–91; mentioned 93–98

and queer theory concepts employed in, defined 85–91

of serostatus identity 90–92, 95, 97

of sexual orientation 86–87, 90, 95

AIDS education. See HIV prevention education

AIDS Center at St. Vincent’s Hospital (NYC) 106

AIDS/HIV epidemiology. See also HIV seroconversion

incidence 62, 84, 97–98

sociological blame placing for 89–90

AIDS Peer Education Project (APE; Sarah Lawrence College) 2

AIDS phobia 31

AIDS Project Los Angeles, The xxi[xxv]

AIDS Services Center of Pasadena, The xxi[xxv]

Anal sex

eroticism taboo of 16, 94

insertive role HIV transmission beliefs 10

Latin American gender-role differentiations for 63

receptive role, importance of semen exchange and xviii[xxii], 16

Araki, Greg 96

Arce, Archbishop Quintero 67

Arenas, Reynaldo 63

Argentina 66–67, 70–72, 73, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• About the Editor
• Foreword
• Personal Perspectives
• Clinical Approaches
• Concepts and the Future
• Index