Abstract
This chapter examines two contradicting perspectives of two gay men from different generations regarding gay sexual culture during the 1960s to 1970s. The first one argues that during the peak of gay culture, gay men did not care about whether or not they would be infected by AIDS from unprotected sex, instead they looked forward to the enjoyment the intimacy brought to them in public sex spaces; this narrative is dubbed as the desirable narrative “queer” sexual culture. The second one counter-argues that the promiscuity during the 1960s paved the way for unhealthy sexual relations that resulted in the spread of AIDS, thus only focusing on the negative effects of sexual relations. Neoconservative gay journalist Gabriel Rotello, and Leo Bersani’s essay “Is the Rectum a Grave?” (1987) and Gregg Araki’s film The Living End (1992) supported the second gay man’s claim.
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