Author: John Dececco Phd
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: haworth, gay, lesbian, studies, america, central, love, sex, bars, macho
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1560239654
ISBN-13: 9781560239659

Macho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America is the first in-depth study of sexual culture and AIDS in Latin prisons. Psychologists, social workers, criminologists, and AIDS specialists will discover a shocking realization of how the interplay of sexual ideals, prostitution, manipulation, resistance, and power relationships among prisoners and some staff are based on money, sex, drugs, and violence. Macho Love gives you a stirring and emotional look at the various risks and dangers lurking in the Latin American prison culture and discusses how Costa Rican and Central American prisons are imp

Author: John Dececco Phd
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: gay, lesbian, studies, amp, man, older, homosexual, haworth
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 1995-12-28
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 1560249862
ISBN-13: 9781560249863

In the absence of accurate information, American culture has upheld a distorted view of what it means to be an older gay man. Gay and Gray is the first and only scholarly full-length treatment of older gay men in America today. It breaks the stereotype that older gay men are strange, lonely creatures and reveals that most older gay men are well-adjusted to their homosexuality and the aging process.This second edition contains four new chapters that present additional perspectives on the reality of gay aging. Dr. Minnigerode’s study shows that older gay men do not perceive themselves as growi

Author: John Dececco Phd
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: gay, amp, lesbian, studies, haworth, straight, differences, friendships, navigating, men
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 1998-12-14
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0789006197
ISBN-13: 9780789006196

Navigating Differences: Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men is a one-of-a-kind cross-sexual study that shows you how today’s gay and straight men build, maintain, and foster true friendships. In this activist, participatory study, you’ll get a day-in-the-life look at 44 pairs of cross-sexual men’s friendships and see what helps them negotiate the terrain of their emotional, sexual, psychological, and social differences in today’s climate of often publicly defended homophobia and heterosexism.Navigating Differences succeeds in bringing the true picture of cross-sexual men’s relat

Author: John Dececco Phd
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: gay, amp, lesbian, studies, haworth, setting, queens, transvestism, latin, american, toads
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1999-04-06
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0789006499
ISBN-13: 9780789006493

The information in From Toads to Queens: Transvestism in a Latin American Setting is crucial to understanding Latin American culture and its relation to HIV prevention. You’ll find research findings that offer insights into and analysis of the sexual culture and risk factors that place transvestites in the sex trade and their customers at risk of contracting HIV. This information could prove valuable to developing preventions and interventions for similar populations in countries all over the world. In From Toads to Queens, transvestites in the sex trade and their customers share

Author: John Dececco Phd
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: gay, haworth, cultures, amp, identities, lesbian, studies, post, breathe, bones, men, creating, dry, aids
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 1998-05-06
List price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 0789004704
ISBN-13: 9780789004703

Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures breaks new ground in offering an original and insightful interpretation of gay men’s shifting experience of the AIDS epidemic. From Dry Bones Breathe, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of current community debates focused on circuit parties, unprotected sex, and gay men’s sexual cultures, and you will learn how social, political, and biomedical changes are dramatically transforming gay identities and cultures.Dry Bones Breathe is Eric Rofes’explosive follow-up to Reviving the Tribe, a book which broke open debates i

Author: John Dececco Phd
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: gay, haworth, amp, lesbian, studies, culture, media, hype, man, selling, male, beauty, behold
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1999-01-07
List price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 0789006340
ISBN-13: 9780789006349

The first comprehensive study of how images of male beauty are projected onto society, Behold the Man: The Hype and Selling of Male Beauty in Media and Culture examines the role media and society play in creating the image of the idealized male. This book explores how these images are interpreted by all genders and sexual orientations in order to investigate the phenomenon’s effect on the self-esteem of adolescent and adult males. Behold the Man provides you with research and examples that identify this problem from many angles to help you realize that being a man is more than merely possess

Authors:John Dececco Phd, Jay Quinn,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: identity, gay, friendship, memoir, mentor
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2000-04-12
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0789004968
ISBN-13: 9780789004963

Examine a moving, personal narrative about growing up gay in the south! Students, teachers, and anyone interested in gay studies and experiences will find that The Mentor: A Memoir of Friendship and Gay Identity delivers a captivating and honest look into the challenges of growing up gay through the context of firsthand experiences, revelations, and realizations. This unique book is an intelligent and personal narrative that considers the social, religious, and emotional aspects of what it is like to grow up as a gay male in the south and examines the enormous social changes regarding homos