Toby Marotta:
CLASS OF 1963
Medford High SchoolClass of 1963
Medford, MA
Toby's Story
Toby is from Medford, Massachusetts. He is in a relationship. His schools include Medford High School. He works(ed) at Dove Mountain, San Francisco | The Official Guide, Harvard University.
Toby's interests include Mona Lisa Italian Foods, San Diego, California, Kevin Youklis. Books he likes include Time It Was: American Stories from the Sixties. TV shows he likes include 10 Percent, The Weather Channel.
More about Toby:"I have a wonderful assortment of friends -- personal, professional, civic. and political. After our years of learning, teaching, and advising at Harvard University, Rusty Kothavala and I moved to Berkeley, California. Here I completed my dissertation on the politics of homosexuality, later published with that title by Houghton Mifflin. Next came my two decades of work as a professional ethnographer. Sons of Harvard, which was published by William Morrow in 1982, introduced gay male lifestyles as well as my early life to the general public while profiling a dozen of my Harvard College classmates.
In 1976, Rusty and I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. While commuting to "the City" from...Expand for more
Oakland, I began conducting federally funded ethnographic research on the various underclass lifestyles found in its Tenderloin and Polk Gulch neighborhoods.
During the first half of the 1980s the arrival of HIV/AIDS made it the focus of my professional ethnographic work. Supported by grants from various National Institutes of Health I concentrated on learning how AIDS was spreading among widely stigmatized San Franciscan groups ranging from sex workers to intravenous drug users.
In 1995 I moved to Tucson, Arizona, national capital of integrative, multicultural medicine, to develop and publicize my slowly evolved conclusion that teaching people how to practice effective post-sex hygiene is the most realistic way to help lovers elude STIS including HIV/AIDS.
Thanks to the comparative ethnographic research I have conducted in and around Hilo, Hawaii, and San Diego, California, I began to explore, write about, and publicize the idea that introducing substance-abusers to drinks brewed from Pacific-grown Kava Root is an easy way to wean people from self-destructive and socially costly substance abuse.".
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