Unrequited love : diary of an accidental activist /

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Author / Creator:Altman, Dennis, 1943- author.
Imprint:Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2019]
©2019
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages)
Language:English
Series:Biography Ser.
Biography Ser.
Subject:Altman, Dennis, -- 1943-
Altman, Dennis, -- 1943-
Human rights workers -- Biography.
Human rights workers
Electronic books.
Biographies
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12402170
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ISBN:1925835138
9781925835137
9781925835120
192583512X
9781925835144
1925835146
Notes:Description based on print version record.
Summary: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.
Other form:1-925835-12-X