Title: Gay - What Teenagers Should Know about Homosexuality and the AIDS Crisis Author: Morton Hunt Published by: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987 ISBN: 0-374-42525-8 [Trade paperback, 244 pages]
Homosexuality, though more freely spoken of today than ever before, remains for most young people mysterious and generally alarming. Ironically, and tragically, at the very time homosexuals were coming into the open, and hostility toward them was dissipating, the scourge of AIDS appeared, casting a new pall over homosexual life and contaminating relations between the heterosexual and homosexual communities.In this new edition of Gay, Morton Hunt describes the world of homosexuality since the onset of AIDS. At the same time, he has completely updated the book to include recent interviews, reports, and scientific findings that go even farther than the original edition to demystify homosexual attitudes, sexual
practices, and life-styles.Mr. Hunt's broad exploration of the subject should answer the questions of teenagers, dispel their misconceptions, and provide them with a reassuring understanding of their own feelings and needs, whether these be straight or gay in orientation. Candidly, but without sensationalism, he examines such questions as:
- What is homosexuality -- or, rather, the homosexualities?
- What causes it, and how are the many different causes related to the different forms it takes?
- What do homosexuals actually do, sexually?
- Why is AIDS linked with homosexuality, and what is meant by "safe sex"?
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