GAY COMMUNITY, AIDS AGENCIES AND THE HIV EPIDEMIC IN ADELAIDE: THEORISING 'POST AIDS'.

The article reports on the operation of gay culture and gay community in Adelaide, South Australia. The aim is to uncover the social and cultural aspects of how the HIV/ AIDS epidemic is operating and being operated upon in South Australia. A study was conducted to find what was the prevailing thinking about HIV and Adelaide's sexual and social formations in this context. The data for the study was collected through twenty-one, face to face, life history interviews, five group interviews and other ethnographic work, including textual analysis of gay community print materials.