"An urgent and important work. Once again, Patton's usual brilliance is much in evidence--her irreverent and eclectic roving around different cultural and disciplinary domains, her perceptive readings of specific texts, her ear to various subcultural grounds, her wisdom based on personal history in the queer media and AIDS community movements."--Thomas Waugh, author of "The Fruit Machine"

Cindy Patton is Associate Professor, Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts, Emory University. She is the author of several books, including Sex and Germs and Inventing AIDS.

Acknowledgments 1
1. Around 1989 3
2. Between Innocence and Safety 35
3. The Erotics of Innocence 63
4. "The Only Weapon We Have . . ." 95
5. Visualizing Safe Sex 118
Conclusion: From Visibility to Insurrection: A Manifesto 139
Notes 157
Bibliography 171
Index 177