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Writings

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Charters Good for San Francisco Public Schools (November 23, 2005, San Francisco Examiner, with Peter Thorp)
Charter Schools Expand: Will They Encourage Public School Reform (Dollars and Sense, March 1998)
Gay Issues, Schools, and the Right-Wing Backlash (Rethinking Schools, Spring 1997)
Gay Bodies, Gay Selves: Understanding the Gay Men's Health Movement
[235k PDF]
How Can We Reduce Conflict Between Charter Schools and District Schools?
[848k pdf]
Test/Positive/Now: The Infection Monologues: Recent production written by Eric Rofes at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. To learn more, download the flyer [280kb PDF] or download the program [1.3mb PDF]
A Castro Manifesto: Towards a More Welcoming Neighborhood
[article in the SFBay Times]
Facing the Third Decade of HIV/AIDS: Can We Finally Tackle the Real Issues Impacting Gay Men's Sexual Health?
Gay Men Confronting Upswings in Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and HIV: Where Do We Go From Here?
Review in Mortality of: The AIDS Crisis and the Modern Self: Biographical Self-Construction in the Awareness of Finitude
Now That It's Over
The Chasm Widens Between San Francisco Gay Men and Public Health Authorities or Why San Francisco Gay Men Doubt and Distrust Our Own Health Advocates
The First Queer March on Washington
What Are We Teaching Children Through Our Response to Terrorism? or What Does "Nail the Bastards" Teach Children?
Eric Rofes Speaks: An Interview with Kat Couric (To Be Publications, May 2005)
The Way We Live Now: Dialogue Between Eric Rofes & Dan Savage (Poz.com, May 1999)
Life After Knight: A Call for Direct Action and Civil Disobedience (March 2000)
Read it on Buddy Buddy
Read it on Alter Net
Witnessing the Epidemic (The World, 1995)
AIDS, Health and Community: An Interview with Eric Rofes by Don Shewey (Don Shewey.com, 2001)
The Emerging Sex Panic Targeting Gay Men (Managing Desire, November 16, 1997)
Why Gay Men's Health? Why Now? (Out Spoken, August 2000)
What Do We Do with the Rage and the Fury This Time? On the Death of Ronald Reagan (Westom.com, June 2004)
The Condom Backlash (Planet Out)
What Are You Working On? Writers on their works in progress: Eric Rofes, author and activist (Too Beautiful, January 2006)