Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. National Lesbian and Gay Health Association (U.S.)

Description

1. xxvi, 594 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Subject

1. United States
2. Gay men > Psychology
3. Health
4. Mental health
5. Sex instruction
6. mental health
7. health
8. Éducation sexuelle
9. Santé mentale
10. Santé
11. Sexualité sans risque dans la prévention du sida > États-Unis
12. Éducation sexuelle des homosexuels masculins > États-Unis
13. Estime de soi chez l'homme > États-Unis
14. Homosexuels masculins > Santé et hygiène > États-Unis
15. Homosexuels masculins > États-Unis > Psychologie
16. Homosexuels masculins > Santé mentale > États-Unis
17. Sex Education
18. Mental Health
19. Homosexuality, Male
20. Safe sex in AIDS prevention > United States
21. Sex instruction for gay men > United States
22. Self-esteem in men > United States
23. Gay men > Health and hygiene > United States
24. Gay men > United States > Psychology
25. Gay men > Mental health > United States

Contents

1. Foreword / Christopher J. Portelli -- Introduction : Health care needs of gay men -- Part I. Health care : 1. Finding gay-affirmative primary health-care professionals : Patients' bill of rights ; Clinical center patients' bill of rights ; Checklist for gay-affirming health-care professionals ; Finding the right health-care provider ; Medical care and common sense ; Basic blood work ; Gay bowel syndrome -- 2. Clinics and hospitals : Managed-care bill of rights -- 3. Maintaining a workable collaborative relationship with primary health-care providers -- 4. Mental health : The innate nature of same-sex orientation -- 5. Some common development and mental-health issues : Coming out : Models for coming out; Stage theories of identity; When to come out; Coming out; My son must be crazy; Childhood friends and class reunions; Fear, anger, and rage; Stuffing it: everyone just wants to help; Putting anger to good use; Escape from anger and rage ; Depression : Getting out of depression ; Well-being : Definitions of theory-guided dimensions of well-being ; Identifying depression : Questions from the CES-D Scale ; Additional stressors : Accepting loss; Recognition -- 6. Common physical ailments : Alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs: use, abuse, and addiction ; Amoebas, shigella, and other enteric or infections ; Antibiotics-resistant disease strains ; Chancroid ; Chlamydia ; Genital warts ; Hepatitis B ; Hepatitis C ; HIB/AIDS ; Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) ; Tuberculosis -- 7. Sex and love and other addictions : Just socializing ; Bars, clubs, restaurants, and venues: gay men and obsession ; What to do when it gets to be too much ; Injecting drugs and using clean needles ; He picked up a junkie ; Intervention with a drug-abusing friend -- 8. Getting health versus staying healthy (the mind/body connection) -- 9. Alternative medicine : Breathing ; Mind/body connection ; Chiropractic ; Acupuncture ; Massage ; Homeopathic medicine ; Detoxification ; Meditation ; Yoga, stretching, tai chi, movement -- 10. Listening to your body : Good nutrition is a requirement for healthful living ; Juicing: the nutritional solution for gay men? ; Rest ; Stress management -- Part II. Sex, safely: coping in a sex-negative culture : 11. How to deal with a sex-negative culture -- 12. Stimulation: respect the body: the basics: hygiene, health, hazards : Virginity ; Sex the first time ; Oral sex ; Dick, cock, penis: the sex organ ; Penis hygiene ; Medical conditions of the penis ; Size: penis, cock, dick, thing, bicho, you know ; Scrotum and testicles ; Self-examination of the testicles ; Other reproductive organs ; Prostate self-exam ; Prostate cancer ; New and vestigial sex organs ; Anus (asshole), rectum, and lower colon ; Anorectal hygiene ; A fundamental agreement ; Common medical conditions of the anus and rectum ; Risk-assessment questionnaire -- 13. Orgasm and ejaculation : More about gay male orgasm: a complex of events and responses ; Masturbation ; Mutual masturbation -- 14. Sexual encounters : Knowing what you want ; Attraction checklist ; Beauty ; Cruising and quickies: remember the unwritten rules -- 15. Sex basics and safer sex : Safer sex ; Condom use ; Latex condom quality assurance ; Allergies ; Condoms made of polyurethane ; Aegis, the barrier pouch ; Cultural approaches to safer sex, distrust and public health ; Frequently asked questions about safer sex ; Sex practices with associated medical risk ; Leather -- 16. Women : A bisexual reality --
2. Part III. You are not alone : 17. Self-Image : Gender ; Same-sex attraction and masculinity ; Bisexuality ; Transsexuality ; Travestism (drag), cross dressing, gender bending ; What am I doing here? A woman of transsexual experience -- 18. Body image : Young is beautiful ; What is it to be a man: the masculinity myth ; Beauty and the body type ; Standards and guidelines for weight ; Staying young: fitness ; Different types, different sizes, all gay ; Body-type preference ; Plastic surgery ; Anabolic steroids ; Take the mirror for yourself ; Asian and sexual ; Food and appearance: eating disorders -- 19. Attraction and the body parts that drive us to fantasy : Head, face, neck ; Shoulders, chest ; Waist ; Genitals, penis and testicles ; Performance ; On the lighter side ; Bubble butts, and all the rest ; Gay men with disabilities ; The imperfections of beauty (condensed) ; Better dead than ugly -- 20. Younger men who love men : Girls and boys ; Think about it: Are girls the competition? ; Sex and death ; Homelessness ; Transsexual youth ; Role models ; Finding your role model ; Age and sex ; Staying out: some obstacles to positive self-image ; Portrait: "I'm masculine and into other men" ; Portrait of a young gay man: David ; Michael's dilemma: a story ; Ethical standards and practical guidelines for staff and volunteers working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth in a health-care setting -- 21. Older gay men : Middle-age adaptation: freedom of expression ; Finding community through health care ; Overarching thoughts about midlife transitions in gay men ; Observations of homosexual encounters before Stonewall -- 22. Aging : What older gay men need ; Old and gay versus gay and old ; Senior abuse ; A secondhand experience of a closeted man of another era: the posthumous letter -- 23. Transsexual gay men : FTM 101: the invisible transsexual -- 24. Gay men with HIV and AIDS : AIDS and fear: a checklist : Travel and HIV; Living with HIV; HIV disclosure -- 25. Intimacy : Hints for intimacy -- 26. Single : Men! Can't live with them -- 27. Married : What do you want from/bring to a primary relationship? ; Must all good things come to an end? ; A frank talk about safe sex ; Arguing against gay marriage ; Dearly beloved -- 28. Living it/Loving yourself : Homosexuals are good, and better ; Self-image is in my control -- Part IV. The big picture: awareness and the visible gay man : 29. Heterosexism and homophobia : Heterosexism and transgendered people ; Older gay men and hetersexism ; Gays and the military -- 30. Violence and abuse : Self-defense ; Women who want to fix gay men ; Incest and sexual abuse ; Harassment based on perception of sexual orientation ; Massachusetts's answer to violence and emotional abuse of young lesbians and gays: a unique approach to partnership and parenting: safe homes -- 31. Coping mechanisms : Drugs ; Toward constructive coping ; Spiritual health: making personal feelings visible ; LGBT community churches ; Relax ; Self-help and healing -- Part V. Gay men can have it all! : 32. You can have it all! : One way to deal with a "bad day" ; Families of choice ; Intergenerational friendships, surrogate families ; Biological families becoming friends ; Reproductive health ; Anecdotes -- 33. Diversity : Hostility within the gay community ; Date rape ; Social action in gay community ; Picture future perfect ; Anecdotes ; Sex for money -- 34. Male-to-female transgender issues : Dressing and the law ; Dragging me down ; Transsexuality ; Needs of working transpersons -- 35. Finding community : Relationships, affinity groups, families of choice ; Pride ; The politics of lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, and transgender organizations -- Part VI. Hope : Anger and attitude -- Appendixes : A. Glossary of terms -- B. Contacts for medical and mental-health organizations with gay and lesbian policy statements -- C. Some state-by-state, city-by-city, lesbian- and gay-rights laws -- D. Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, and other sexual minorities in health care and mental-health care -- E. State insurance regulatory hot lines -- F. Age-of-consent laws -- G. The NLGHA Board of Directors.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.