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Death In The Sauna by Dennis Altman
Category: Fiction
On the eve of a major international AIDS Conference in London, the Conference chair is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Tracking down how he died reveals layers of deception, rivalry and danger for those close to him. Dennis Altman has written widely on sexuality, politics and culture both in Au ...Show more
God Save the Queen: The Strange Persistence of Monarchies by Dennis Altman
Category: History
An avowed republican investigates the unexpected durability and potential benefits of constitutional monarchies.An avowed republican investigates the unexpected durability and potential benefits of constitutional monarchies.When he was deposed in Egypt in 1952, King Farouk predicted that there would be ...Show more
Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation by Dennis Altman
Category: Philosophy and Religion
When Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation was first published in 1971, Martin Duberman, writing in the New York Review of Books, hailed it as 'the only work that bears comparison, in terms of sustained analysis and theoretical complexity, with the best to appear from Women's Liberation'. Time commented ...Show more
How to Vote Progressive in Australia: Labor or Green? by Dennis Altman
Category: History
Red or Green? Traditionally, Australian progressives have supported the Australian Labor Party; increasingly, The Greens appeal. What are the key differences between the parties? Is greater collaboration desirable? Is it likely? Some progressives remain strongly committed to Labor or The Greens. Others ...Show more
Queer Wars by Dennis Altman & Jonathan Symons
Category: Australian History
The claim that 'LGBT rights are human rights' encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to 'LGBT rights' to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and western decadence. Queer Wars expl ...Show more
The End of the Homosexual? by Dennis Altman
Category: History
From the author of the groundbreaking 1971 classic Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation comes a new work reflecting on all that has changed over the past four decades. In The End of the Homosexual? – part memoir/part politics – Dennis Altman connects what has happened within the changing queer world ...Show more
Unrequited Love: Diary of an Accidental Activist by Dennis Altman
Category: Australian History | Series: Biography Ser.
Dennis Altman's long obsession with the United States began when he went there as a graduate student during Lyndon Johnson's Presidency. His early writing stemmed from the counter-culture that developed in the States in the mid-1960s. Altman was involved in early Gay Liberation, and his 1971 study Homos ...Show more
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