Smearing the Queer

This volume explores the ways that social prejudices embedded in scientific research and practice have come to harm gay men's health. Scarce, coordinator of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resources at the University of California, San Francisco, provides a specific plan for improving health care for gay men, specifically through addressing heterosexism in the health sciences and by broadening the scope of wellness for gay men beyond HIV infection. He addresses issues such as prevention and screening for anorectal cancer; alternatives for safe sex, including the use of the Reality Female Condom; and the problematic diagnosis "gay bowel syndrome".