Love undetectable : notes on friendship, sex, and survival / Andrew Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Andrew, 1963-

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--United States--Social conditions.

Gay men.

Gay men--Sexual behavior--United States.

AIDS (Disease)--Patients--United States.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV-positive persons--United States.

HIV-positive persons.

Homosexuality--United States--Public opinion.

Homosexuality.

Public opinion--United States.

Public opinion.

AIDS (Disease)--Patients.

Gay men--Sexual behavior.

Gay men--Social conditions.

Homosexuality--Public opinion.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 255 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

1st Vintage books ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1999.

Summary:

When former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan publicly revealed his HIV positive status in 1996, he intended "to be among the first generation that survives this disease." In this new book, a powerful meditation on the spiritual effect AIDS has on friendship, love, sexuality, and American culture, we follow Sullivan on his path to survival. A practicing Catholic, Sullivan reflects on his faith in God, and expresses his bittersweet joy upon learning about new AIDS treatments that he believes led to the virus's recent transformation from a plague into a chronic illness. He revisits Freud to seek the origins of homosexuality and reviews the works of Aristotle, St. Augustine, and W.H. Auden to define friendship for a contemporary, post-plague world. Sullivan's last essay extols the virtues of friendship, elevating platonic love over the romantic, as he memorializes his best friend, who died of AIDS. Intensely personal and passionately political, Sullivan's essays are not just about his own experiences but also a powerful testament to human resilience, faith, hope, and love

Notes:

Originally published in hardcover: New York : Knopf, ©1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-255).

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

Other Format:

Online version: Sullivan, Andrew, 1963- Love undetectable.

ISBN:

0679773150

9780679773153

OCLC:

43297307