Queer and Loathing

by Feinberg, David B.

• ISBN13: 9780670857661
• ISBN10: 0670857661
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: Viking Pr

Summary

"This is as close to the truth as I can get," writes David B. Feinberg in this stunning nonfiction debut - a collection of autobiographical essays, gonzo journalism, and demented Feinbergian lists about AIDS activism and living, writing, and dying with AIDS. With the startling blend of satiric wit and pathos, black humor and heroism, found in his widely acclaimed and iconoclastic novels, he charts a harrowing personal journey down that "HIV highway to hell."

Table of Contents

Introduction
Queer and Loathing at the FDA: Revolt of the Perverts	p. 3
Etiquette for the HIV-Antibody-Positive	p. 57
Notes from the Front Lines: Writing about AIDS	p. 62
Tales from the Front	p. 71
Direct Mail from Hell	p. 75
Sex Tips for Boys	p. 80
AIDS and Humor	p. 84
April Fools	p. 90
Bleeding Gums from Hell	p. 95
100 Ways You Can Fight the AIDS Crisis	p. 102
Cocktails from Hell	p. 109
Nam Yoho Renge Kyo	p. 115
Needles and Pins	p. 117
Notes on Sex	p. 126
Waiting for the End of the World	p. 131
Warts from Hell	p. 140
The Day from Hell	p. 151
The Canals of Mars	p. 154
How to Visit Someone in the Hospital with a Terminal Disease	p. 160
Memorials from Hell	p. 162
How to Make a Will	p. 169
Everything You Do Is Wrong	p. 171
Miss Letitia Thing's New Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior for the Dying	p. 175
A Season in Hell	p. 177
David P.	p. 198
On the Drip	p. 204
The AIDS Clone vs. the New Clone	p. 217
Wide Sargasso Sea	p. 220
Notes on Death	p. 233
You Can't Wear a Red Ribbon If You're Dead	p. 235
Death before Forty	p. 240
The Gastronomic Me	p. 245
Ethical Suicide Alternatives	p. 251
Political Funerals	p. 254
Death Be Not Proud	p. 266
Regrets	p. 268
The Last Piece	p. 273
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