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6 In the company of men: gay culture and HIV in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Michael Stevens
Abstract
This piece is written as an autoethnographic memoir and study of how it has been and is to live as an HIV-positive gay man from Aotearoa New Zealand across a time of great cultural change. It is a reflection through a sociological and historical lens of how the personal side of my life as a gay man intersects with wider cultural, political and health-related themes.
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Abstract
This piece is written as an autoethnographic memoir and study of how it has been and is to live as an HIV-positive gay man from Aotearoa New Zealand across a time of great cultural change. It is a reflection through a sociological and historical lens of how the personal side of my life as a gay man intersects with wider cultural, political and health-related themes.
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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Notes on contributors vii
- Series editors’ introduction xi
- Foreword: Dare we hope for the erotic? HIV/AIDS, sexuality and ageing xxi
- Introduction 1
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Women
- The ‘disease of love’: trajectories of women ageing with HIV in Switzerland 11
- Beyond the biomedical: HIV as a barrier to intimacy for older women living with HIV in the United Kingdom 28
- ‘Everyone is on their own and nobody needs us’: women ageing with HIV in Ukraine 46
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Gay and bisexual men
- Chemsex among gay men living with HIV aged over 45 in England and Italy: sociality and pleasure in times of undetectability 67
- Freed from fear: reconstructing older gay male sexuality through PrEP – an account of a generational experience 84
- In the company of men: gay culture and HIV in Aotearoa New Zealand 102
- Growing old with stigma: a case study of four older Chinese gay/bisexual men living with HIV in Hong Kong 114
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Intersectional lives, multiple stigmas
- Out in Africa: facing the HIV other in Nairobi 139
- Survival of an older Bangladeshi lesbian experiencing intersectional vulnerability 159
- Sanjeevani: early ageing and HIV survival in queer Mumbai 174
- Afterword 191
- Index 194
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Notes on contributors vii
- Series editors’ introduction xi
- Foreword: Dare we hope for the erotic? HIV/AIDS, sexuality and ageing xxi
- Introduction 1
-
Women
- The ‘disease of love’: trajectories of women ageing with HIV in Switzerland 11
- Beyond the biomedical: HIV as a barrier to intimacy for older women living with HIV in the United Kingdom 28
- ‘Everyone is on their own and nobody needs us’: women ageing with HIV in Ukraine 46
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Gay and bisexual men
- Chemsex among gay men living with HIV aged over 45 in England and Italy: sociality and pleasure in times of undetectability 67
- Freed from fear: reconstructing older gay male sexuality through PrEP – an account of a generational experience 84
- In the company of men: gay culture and HIV in Aotearoa New Zealand 102
- Growing old with stigma: a case study of four older Chinese gay/bisexual men living with HIV in Hong Kong 114
-
Intersectional lives, multiple stigmas
- Out in Africa: facing the HIV other in Nairobi 139
- Survival of an older Bangladeshi lesbian experiencing intersectional vulnerability 159
- Sanjeevani: early ageing and HIV survival in queer Mumbai 174
- Afterword 191
- Index 194
