Education and soul-searching: The enterprise HIV prevention group

International Journal of Transgenderism

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages

  Hein, Douglas ^a   Kirk, Michael ^b  

^a Boston Public Health Commissions   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DRUG ABUSE; GUILT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; IMPOTENCE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROPHYLAXIS; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0007913666     PISSN: 14344599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. Enterprise members report significant changes in their ability to access competent transsexual health care in Boston since 1993. Members actively educate the local medical and social service community about the needs of FTMs.
2. Cameron L. (1996) Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits. Cleis Press.
3. A Northern Light/Candace Schermerhorn Production, 1050 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 (1996) You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men. This film profiles six FTMs, one of whom is a founding member of Enterprise.
4. McFarland W., Fischer-Ponce L., Katz M. (1995) Repeat negative HIV testing in San Francisco: magnitude and characteristics. American Journal of Epidemiology. October: 719-723. This study found that repeat testers are more likely to be gay or bisexual men, and that these individuals are three times more likely to seroconvert in the future.
5. Prieur A. (1990) Norwegian gay men: reasons for continued practice of unsafe sex. AIDS Education and Prevention.
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8. Hein D., Beverley G., Longo V., Burak M., (1995) A Short-Term Support and Education Group for HIV-Negative Gay and Bisexual Men. Boston Public Health Commission and Fenway Community Health Center. Unpublished.
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11. The flyer was created by an Enterprise member and has the following text: Dump your fears for an evening of education and soulsearching with Doug Hein, a professional HIV counselor who runs special workshops dedicated to helping us understand HIV, its impact on our lives, and what we can do.
12. Jenny Holzer. Walker Art Museum Sculpture Garden: Minneapolis.
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16. Odets. 5-13. Odets promotes AIDS education that "acknowledges the social realities of the epidemic" and is "relatively free of homophobia, misrepresentation, and moralization." He writes, "Next among the psychological issues is called off line-on line by Australian psychologist Ron Gold. Put simply, this is the readily observed idea that people exist in different 'states' of consciousness when they are being educated and when they are having sex. In neurophysiological terms this is the idea that people are educated 'with' their cortexes and have sex(at least substantially(with their brain stems. Gold makes a convincing point: Our education is aimed at the cortex with little regard for how the cortex and brain stem interact during sex . . . Most acculturation and socialization involve establishing 'communication' between these two states of consciousness, and this can be done in the context of AIDS education if we stop educating the cortex as if it were the source of all human feeling and behavior."
17. Herdt G. (1981) Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms in Masculinity. McGraw-Hill: New York. Herdt writes about the Sambia tribe in New Guinea in which young boys ingest the semen of older males to acquire male sexual energy and power.
18. Martin J., Knox J. (1995) HIV risk behavior in gay men with unstable self-esteem. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services. Volume 2: 21-41.
19. Devor H. (1997) FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society. Indiana University Press: Bloomington and Indianapolis. 467-468. Devor writes about the men in her study, "Within the spheres of their everyday lives, they ceased being transsexuals and simply became men . . . There were, however, three main areas in which all participants who lived as men were reminded of their transsexualism no matter what their stage of physical transition: in public toilets, in doctors' examination rooms, and in sexual intimacies. These were the areas of their lives wherein they were required to expose those parts of their bodies which proclaimed them to be other than physiologically average males."
20. Prieur A. (1998) Mema's House Mexico City: On Tranvestites, Queens, and Machos. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London. 39. Prieur writes, "Representations form the body, but the body imposes its limits; sexual organs are objective facts that form the representations of gender and the identities . . . While bodies are not destinies in any absolute sense, they do form social experiences, and are formed by social experiences." Group members valued experiences with sexual partners who perceived them as male and appreciated their bodies as they were. The men reported feeling more self-accepting of their sexual anatomy after such encounters, and less focused on anger and grief.
21. Chen J. (1998) Final Report: Evaluation of a Three-Week Support and Education Program for HIV-Negative Gay and Bisexual Men at the Fenway Community Health Center. Harvard School of Public Health. Unpublished.