Steve Valocchi; Gay Macho: The Life and Death of the Homosexual Mart P. Leve. New York Universy Prs, 1998. 260 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $17.95
Contents:
- GAY MACHO
- GAY MACHO: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE HOMOSEXUAL CLONE
- GAY MACHO: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE HOMOSEXUAL CLONE
GAY MACHO
A soclogil examatn to the emergence of male homosexualy wh a tradnal mascule ethosBefore gay liberatn, gay men were ually perceived a... * gay macho the life and death of the homosexual clone *
The Life and Death of the Homosexual ClonePublished by: NYU PrsImprt: NYU PrsSal Date: January 1998. Gay macho: the life and ath of the homosexual clone / Mart P. The Birth of the Gay Clone Introductn: "So Many Men, So Ltle Time": Toward a Soclogy of the Gay Male Clone.
"It's Rag Men": The Soclogy of Gay Masculy. ": The Social Organizatn of Gay Male Life.
"Midnight Love Affair": Gay Masculy and Emotnal Intimacy Pt. The Death of the Gay Clone.
GAY MACHO: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE HOMOSEXUAL CLONE
* gay macho the life and death of the homosexual clone *
The Motiv of Gay Men for Takg or Not Takg the HIV Antibody Tt / Karolynn Siegal, Mart Leve and Charl Brooks [et al. Unprotected Sex: Unrstandg Gay Men's Participatn / Mart Leve and Karolynn Siegal. Before gay liberatn, gay men were ually perceived as failed men - "verts, " men trapped women's bodi.
GAY MACHO: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE HOMOSEXUAL CLONE
The 1970s saw a radil shift gay male culture, as a male homosexualy emerged that embraced a more tradnal mascule ethos. The gay "clone, " a mcle-bound, sexually ee, hard-livg Marlboro man, appeared the gay enclav of major ci, changg forever the face of gay male Macho prents the ethnography of this homosexual clone.
Leve, a pneer of the soclogil study of homosexualy, was among the first social scientists to map the emergence of a gay muny and this new style of gay masculy.
Leve was a participant as well as an observer of gay culture the 1970s, and this perspective allowed him to pture the te flavor of what was like to be a gay man before chapters, based on Leve's pathbreakg empiril rearch, explore some of the epimlogil and social nsequenc of the AIDS epimic on this particular substratum of the gay muny.