Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival

by Andrew Sullivan

Hardcover, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

HQ76.3.U5.S85 1998

Publication

Knopf (1998), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 255 pages

Description

The plague has ended, though the disease continues. Andrew Sullivan traces a social history in public relations to AIDS and the position of homosexuals in society, an agonizing account of the death of a friend, and then makes an argument for re-evaluating the status and significance of friendship.

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Sullivan subtitles this book Notes on Friendship, Sex and Survival. Survival in the sense that the drug cocktails that became prevalent in the second half of the 90s were rendering what had previously been considered a death sentence into a life with a future, albeit a future of medical treatment.
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Sex in the sense that his first book, Virtually Normal, sidestepped: that is, where does homosexuality come from, and what is a society to do with homosexuals? And Friendship in the sense that society marginalizes this most casual, natural of relationships in favor of family or an idealized, romantic love. Throughout the book, Sullivan approaches his topics with a more personal but no less scholarly or thoughtful approach than he exhibits in his previous book or in his Daily Dish blog at the Atlantic.
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Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Nominee — 1998)

Language

Physical description

255 p.; 8.5 inches

ISBN

0679451196 / 9780679451198

Local notes

OCLC = 484

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