Gay Male Sexuality: Exploring Intimacy in the Age of AIDS

Discussing gay sexuality is not an easy thing to do. However, it is very important. That subjest has been present in many web sites, and I intend to continue talking about this here!

Nothing has had more of an impact upon gay men's sexuality and upon our relationships with friends and lovers than AIDS. Living in the midst of this plague has caused many of us to reassess what is really important in life. AIDS has been the impetus for many in our community to examine themselves in terms of their needs for intimacy and love. Many men have begun to question their assumptions about what constitutes a gay male life-style as they never have before.

In the early 1970s I was a college student, just beginning to embrace my identity as a gay man. Luckily for me, this included a large dose of gay activism that centered around two organizations, the newly formed gay student group at State University of New York at Binghamton and (when I was not at school), the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), in Manhattan. The periodicals Gay Sunshine, Body Politic and Fag Rag provided a constant supply of interesting and provocative articles to read, many of them equating various sex acts practiced by gay men with acts of revolution.

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