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Moore, Patrick, 1962- author.

Beyond shame : reclaiming the abandoned history of radical gay sexuality / Patrick Moore.

Boston : Beacon Press, [2004]

xxviii, 236 pages ; 23 cm

"Patrick Moore boldly argues that the promiscuous gay men of the 1970s were actually artists and that AIDS derailed an esthetic community and sexual adventure. This quietly personal book reclaims the past for young gay men and makes it useable."--Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story "A personal, tender, honest book about a past that can never be regained, but must not be forgotten."--Sarah Schulman, author of After Delores "Patrick Moore reminds us of the extravagant creativity of gay self-fashioning in the 1970s, in the hope that such historical awareness can help us bring about an extravagant, creative gay future."--Carolyn Dinshaw, Director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality, New York University "Moore's exceptional study considers those men who fashioned an underground gay life that still resonates today."--Felice Picano, author of Like People In History and a founding member of the Violet Quill Club.

Male homosexuality -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Gay men -- United States -- Psychology.

Gay men -- Sexual behavior -- United States.

Gay men -- United States -- Attitudes.

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

AIDS (Disease) in art.

"Commission by the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS (a project of the Alliance for the Arts)."

The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The great experiment -- Theater of pleasure : the Mineshaft -- Another world : San Francisco and the Catacombs -- The Saint and the beginning of the end -- Gathering darkness -- The life and films of Fred Halsted -- What might have been -- The rise of the East Village -- New role models : Cookie Mueller and David Wojnarowicz -- The sexual flâneur -- ACT UP -- Owning AIDS -- Hope and caution : Assotto Saint and Felix Gonzalez-Torres -- "Contact" and the dangers of assimilation -- The estate project for artists with AIDS.

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