title: Community in gay male experience and moral discourse.
abstract: The three sociological conceptions of community are outlined: the imagined community, community as friendship, and community as local organizations or groups. The extent to which gay men in New York City experience a gay community in each of these ways is investigated by means of in-depth interviews. The type of moral discourse utilized by the gay men interviewed is also discussed. Finally, gay men in New York City are compared to the new Russian Jewish community in Brooklyn as to which is more "postmodern."
authors.affiliation: New School for Social Research, New York, NY, USA.
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authors.lastname: Woolwine
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology; D003255:Consumer Organizations; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009014:Morals; D009519:New York City; D012933:Social Identification; D014505:Urban Population