"Simon Watney provides a thought provoking analysis of the profound cultural crises generated by the AIDS epidemic."--Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, Community Research Initiative on AIDS

Simon Watney is Director of the Red Hot AIDS Charitable Trust in the U. K., a funding initiative for community-based HIV prevention work. He is the author of several books, including Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS, and the Media, and coeditor of Taking Liberties: AIDS and Cultural Politics. He has published more than 250 articles on HIV/AIDS, and his work has appeared in October, the Village Voice, High Performance, Screen, and Artforum, among other publications.