02131nam 2200433 450 991079538870332120191211150450.01-925835-14-61-925835-13-8(CKB)4940000000151808(MiAaPQ)EBC5982965(MiAaPQ)EBC6194010(EXLCZ)99494000000015180820200822d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUnrequited love diary of an accidental activist /Dennis AltmanClayton, Victoria :Monash University Publishing,[2019]©20191 online resource (xiii, 213 pages)BiographyIncludes index.1-925835-12-X Dennis Altman first travelled from Australia to the United States when Lyndon Johnson was President, beginning a long obsession with the US. In the early 1970s he was involved in New York Gay Liberation; his 1971 study Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, is widely regarded as a classic work in its field. In the 1980s Altman lived in San Francisco during the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Later he sat on the Australian National Council on AIDS and international organisations including, as president, the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific. The election of Donald Trump took place while Altman was back in California on one of his frequent visits. In this diarised memoir, moving between Australia, the United States, Europe and parts of Asia, Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Christopher Isherwood and many others people a story of a half century of activism, intellectualism, friendship and conflict.Biography (Monash University Publishing)HomosexualityAustraliaHomosexuality306.7660994Altman Dennis1943-1107954MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795388703321Unrequited love3867178UNINA