LEADER 04689nam 22006855 450 001 9910796754303321 005 20231213114250.0 010 $a0-8122-9499-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812294996 035 $a(CKB)4100000004818292 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5380467 035 $a(DE-B1597)494843 035 $a(OCoLC)1027218496 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812294996 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004818292 100 $a20180924d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBefore AIDS $egay health politics in the 1970s /$fKatie Batza 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aPolitics and Culture in Modern America 311 $a0-8122-5013-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tABBREVIATIONS --$tPreface --$tIntroduction. Fighting Epidemics and Ignorance --$tChapter 1. Reimagining Gay Liberation --$tChapter 2. Beyond Gay Liberation --$tChapter 3. Gay Health Harnesses the State --$tChapter 4. Redefining Gay Health --$tChapter 5. The Gay Health Network Meets AIDS --$tEpilogue. AIDS and the State Enmeshed --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThe AIDS crisis of the 1980s looms large in recent histories of sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so-an unknown virus without a cure ravages an already persecuted minority, medical professionals are unprepared and sometimes unwilling to care for the sick, and a national health bureaucracy is slow to invest resources in finding a cure. Yet this widely accepted narrative, while accurate, creates the impression that the gay community lacked any capacity to address AIDS. In fact, as Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease. Before AIDS explores this heretofore unrecognized story, chronicling the development of a national gay health network by highlighting the origins of longstanding gay health institutions in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, placing them in a larger political context, and following them into the first five years of the AIDS crisis.Like many other minority communities in the 1970s, gay men faced public health challenges that resulted as much from their political marginalization and social stigmatization as from any disease. Gay men mistrusted mainstream health institutions, fearing outing, ostracism, misdiagnosis, and the possibility that their sexuality itself would be treated as a medical condition. In response to these problems, a colorful cast of doctors and activists built a largely self-sufficient gay medical system that challenged, collaborated with, and educated mainstream health practitioners. Taking inspiration from rhetoric employed by the Black Panther, feminist, and anti-urban renewal movements, and putting government funding to new and often unintended uses, gay health activists of the 1970s changed the medical and political understandings of sexuality and health to reflect the new realities of their own sexual revolution. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $aGay liberation movement$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aGay people$xMedical care$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSexual minorities$xMedical care$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aGay men$2homoit$1https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0000506 606 $aHealth care for LGBTQ people$2homoit$1https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0000614 606 $aLGBTQ health education$2homoit$1https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0000877 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aCaregiving. 610 $aGay Studies. 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aHealth. 610 $aLesbian Studies. 610 $aMedicine. 610 $aQueer Studies. 615 0$aGay liberation movement$xHistory 615 0$aGay people$xMedical care$xHistory 615 0$aSexual minorities$xMedical care$xHistory 615 7$aGay men. 615 7$aHealth care for LGBTQ people. 615 7$aLGBTQ health education. 676 $a362.1086/64 700 $aBatza$b Katie$01525760 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796754303321 996 $aBefore AIDS$93767338 997 $aUNINA