Sex in an Epidemic is the story of the safer sex movement in the United States, with a clear and vivid history of the epidemic and the community’s response to halt the spread of the misunderstood disease. Through interviews with many of the leaders who championed safer sex, it’s evident that saving lives depended on two vital questions: How could they get gay men to change their behavior, even if it curtailed the sexual freedom they’d fought so hard for? And how could they retain their sexual identities in the face of a frightening and deadly epidemic?