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- catalog abstract "The untold story in the AIDS crisis is that of the mobilization of the gay community. Bearing Witness is a study of how a community-based initiative - Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York - overcame the formidable obstacles of homophobia and fear of AIDS, and the resulting lack of an adequate response from political and health organizations. Philip Kayal shows how volunteers at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) confront their deepest fears about being homosexual. Rather than shun People with AIDS, they identify with them and neutralize the immobilizing power of homophobia. The volunteers have the courage to bear witness to the suffering of People with AIDS, suffering that in many ways is their own. Kayal explores the why and how of the gay community response to AIDS from his perspective as both a sociologist and GMHC volunteer. The author's own experience allows him to illuminate the social and political meanings of volunteerism by showing how gay/AIDS volunteerism is radical political and religious work. Through collective altruism, GMHC helps to integrate the gay community and establish new concepts of what is sacred. In Bearing Witness, Kayal explores the relationship between personal motives for volunteering and the broader political, social, and religious contexts in which People with AIDS have been largely abandoned. He shows how the mixing of morals, medicine, and American volunteer ideology sets both the tone of the politics of AIDS and influences the evolution of volunteer organizations such as GMHC. AIDS brings that which is deeply private into the public domain, and Kayal offers a compelling analysis of this intersection in his new study of gay/AIDS volunteerism.".
- catalog alternative "LGBT thought and culture. net".
- catalog contributor b4269001.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Getting involved -- The sin stigma and gay/AIDS volunteerism -- "Morality" and AIDS issues -- Democratization and the response to AIDS -- Volunteerism, community, and blaming the victim -- The political economy of volunteerism and AIDS prevention/edcucation -- Who volunteers: minority volunteerism and GMHC -- Gay volunteerism before and after AIDS -- Gay/AIDS volunteerism: a question of altruism? -- Volunteerism and voluntary associations -- GMHC and the community interest: institutionalization and successful volunteerism -- GMHC as organizational success and problem -- Homophobia, bearing witness, and empowerment -- Gay/AIDS volunteerism as political innovation.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-259) and index.".
- catalog description "The untold story in the AIDS crisis is that of the mobilization of the gay community. Bearing Witness is a study of how a community-based initiative - Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York - overcame the formidable obstacles of homophobia and fear of AIDS, and the resulting lack of an adequate response from political and health organizations. Philip Kayal shows how volunteers at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) confront their deepest fears about being homosexual. Rather than shun People with AIDS, they identify with them and neutralize the immobilizing power of homophobia. The volunteers have the courage to bear witness to the suffering of People with AIDS, suffering that in many ways is their own. Kayal explores the why and how of the gay community response to AIDS from his perspective as both a sociologist and GMHC volunteer. The author's own experience allows him to illuminate the social and political meanings of volunteerism by showing how gay/AIDS volunteerism is radical political and religious work. Through collective altruism, GMHC helps to integrate the gay community and establish new concepts of what is sacred. In Bearing Witness, Kayal explores the relationship between personal motives for volunteering and the broader political, social, and religious contexts in which People with AIDS have been largely abandoned. He shows how the mixing of morals, medicine, and American volunteer ideology sets both the tone of the politics of AIDS and influences the evolution of volunteer organizations such as GMHC. AIDS brings that which is deeply private into the public domain, and Kayal offers a compelling analysis of this intersection in his new study of gay/AIDS volunteerism.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 275 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Bearing witness.".
- catalog identifier "0813317282 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0813317290 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Bearing witness.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boulder : Westview Press,".
- catalog relation "Bearing witness.".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.38/9664 20".
- catalog subject "AIDS (Disease) Political aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "AIDS phobia United States.".
- catalog subject "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome United States.".
- catalog subject "Community Health Services New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "Community Health Services United States.".
- catalog subject "Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc.".
- catalog subject "Gay men New York (State) New York Attitudes.".
- catalog subject "Gay men New York (State) New York Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Gay men United States Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "HQ 76.2.U5 K23b 1993".
- catalog subject "HQ76.2.U5 K39 1993".
- catalog subject "Homophobia United States.".
- catalog subject "Homosexuality New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "Homosexuality United States.".
- catalog subject "Politics New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "Politics United States.".
- catalog subject "Prejudice New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "Prejudice United States.".
- catalog subject "Public Opinion New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "Public Opinion United States.".
- catalog subject "Public opinion United States.".
- catalog subject "Social Conditions New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "Social Conditions United States.".
- catalog subject "Volunteer workers in community health services New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "Volunteers New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "Volunteers United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Getting involved -- The sin stigma and gay/AIDS volunteerism -- "Morality" and AIDS issues -- Democratization and the response to AIDS -- Volunteerism, community, and blaming the victim -- The political economy of volunteerism and AIDS prevention/edcucation -- Who volunteers: minority volunteerism and GMHC -- Gay volunteerism before and after AIDS -- Gay/AIDS volunteerism: a question of altruism? -- Volunteerism and voluntary associations -- GMHC and the community interest: institutionalization and successful volunteerism -- GMHC as organizational success and problem -- Homophobia, bearing witness, and empowerment -- Gay/AIDS volunteerism as political innovation.".
- catalog title "Bearing witness : Gay Men's Health Crisis and the politics of AIDS / Philip M. Kayal.".
- catalog type "text".