Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: IX Acknowledgments -- 1 Melancholia and Moralism: An Introduction -- 27 AIDS: CulturalAnalysis/Cultural Ac tivism -- 43 How To Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic -- 83 Portraits of People with AIDS -- 109 Good Ole Bad Boys -- 117 Randy Shilts's Miserab le Failure -- 129 Mourning and Militancy -- 151 The Boys in My Bedroom -- 165 A Day without Gertrude -- 169 Right On, Girlfriend! -- 195 The S pectacle of Mourning -- 203 Accommodating Magic -- 221 Don't Tell -- 24 5 Rosa's Indulgence -- 253 De-Moralizing Representations of AIDS -- 273 Painful Pictures -- 281 Sex and Sensibility, or Sense and Sexuality -- 303 Index.