Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men Book

	Foreword	xi
	Acknowledgments	xv
	Introduction: Fucking with Technology	1
Section I	Smear as Defamation
	Dr. Kazal's Ace in the Hole	9
Chapter 1.	Harbinger of Plague: A Bad Case of Gay Bowel Syndrome	11
	Gaying the Bowel	19
	Siting the Bowel	23
	Speaking in Syndromes	24
	Dual Diagnoses	27
	Prevention	28
	In the Bowels of the Other	29
	AIDS and Gay Bowel Syndrome: Causation, Correlation, and Conflation	32
	The Homosexual Menace: Gay Bowel Syndrome As Grounds for Antigay Discrimination	36
	Conclusions	41
Section II	Smearing to Spread a Wet Substance
	The Plumber's Applause	49
Chapter 2.	Gay Men and the Female Condom: Is Rectal Reality Getting a Bum Wrap?	51
	Historical Reality	53
	Sexual Governance	56
	Feminizing Safer Sex Technology	59
	Instructing the Anus	62
	Queering Reality	68
	The San Francisco Controversy	73
	The Appropriateness of Appropriation	77
	Threadbare Back	83
Chapter 3.	Condomless Condoms: The Politics and Prospects of Rectal Microbicides	85
	The Need for Rectal Harm Reduction	87
	Rectal Microbicide Research and Development	95
	Gendered and Anatomical Comparisons	98
	Types of Microbicides	101
	Prospective Politics	104
	Left to Our Own Devices	108
Section III	The Smear for Microscopic Examination
	A Recipe for Rectal Tarts (or, Just Add Feces and Stir)	113
Chapter 4.	Queering the Smear: A Detective Named Pap	115
	Carcinogenic Homosexuality	118
	Smearing the Anus	121
	Behind the Screen	122
	Comparative Sex	128
	Negotiating the Smear	133
	Adviser	135
Chapter 5.	Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Viagra Use Among Gay Men	137
	Recreational Erections	141
	Sex As a Class Act	144
	Criminal Aids and Criminal AIDS	145
	Conversion Therapy: Bottoms Become Tops	147
	How Hard Is Hard Enough?	149
	Real Men Don't Need Viagra	151
Section IV	Clearing the Smear
	Immaculate Infection	157
Chapter 6.	Heterocopulative Syndrome: Clinico-Pathologic Correlation in 260 Cases	159
	Problem and Literature Review	160
	Method	161
	Results	162
	Discussion	162
	Conclusion	163
Chapter 7.	Smear-Resistant Strategies	165
	Notes	173
	Index	189