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 | Social Forc | Oxford Amic

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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.

GAY MACHO: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE HOMOSEXUAL CLONE

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": The Social Organizatn of Gay Male Life. "Midnight Love Affair": Gay Masculy and Emotnal Intimacy Pt. The Death of the Gay 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. Although Leve explicly rejects pathologizg the gay men afflicted wh HIV, his work velops a sthg, femist-spired crique of masculy, whether practiced by gay men or straight men.

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