Unrequited love : diary of an accidental activist / Dennis Altman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altman, Dennis, 1943- author.

Series:

Biography (Monash University Publishing)

Biography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Altman, Dennis, 1943-.

Altman, Dennis.

Altman, Dennis, 1943---Travel.

Homosexuality--Australia.

Homosexuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2019]

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.

Contents:

Front cover

Title page

About this book

Copyright and imprint information

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction

2016

November: California

November 1: Los Angeles

November 3: Los Angeles

November 5: Los Angeles

November 16: back to Australia

2017

April 27: Melbourne

April 28: Melbourne

May 5: Bendigo

May 20: Berlin

May 25-28: Brighton

May 31: Torquay

June 1-5: London

June 8: Lausanne

June 10: Paris

July 3: Melbourne

July 13: Melbourne

July 20: Melbourne

July 22: Noumea

July 27: Melbourne

July 28: Melbourne

August 5: Melbourne

August 6: Melbourne

August 10: Melbourne

August 12-13: Bendigo

August 18: Sydney

August 22: Melbourne

August 26: Melbourne

August 27: Melbourne

September 1: Melbourne

September 5: Melbourne

September 6: Melbourne

September 7: Melbourne

September 17: Melbourne

September 18: Melbourne

September 25: Melbourne

September 28: Sydney

October 3: Melbourne

October 8: Melbourne

October 13: Melbourne

October 15: Melbourne

October 22: Ballarat

October 25: Melbourne

November 1: Melbourne

November 4-8: Melbourne

November 15: Melbourne

November 27: Melbourne

November 30: Melbourne

December 1: Sydney

December 7: Melbourne

December 13: Melbourne

December 16: Melbourne

December 18: Melbourne

December 25: Sydney

2018

January 1: Melbourne

January 3: Melbourne

January 4: Melbourne

January 10: Melbourne

January 13: Melbourne

January 19: Melbourne

January 21: Melbourne

January 23-24: Melbourne

January 28: Melbourne

February 1: Melbourne

February 4: Melbourne

February 8: Melbourne

February 11: Melbourne

February 21: Melbourne

February 23: Melbourne

February 25: Melbourne

March 2-4: Sydney.

March 5: Adelaide

March 22: Melbourne

March 24: Melbourne

April 6: San Francisco

April 13: Los Angeles

April 17: Melbourne

April 23: Melbourne

May 3: Melbourne

May 4: Melbourne

May 18-19: Castlemaine

June 3: Melbourne

June 8: Melbourne

June 12: Melbourne

June 15: Melbourne

June 19: Melbourne

June 25: Sydney

June 29: Melbourne

July: Munich/Paris/Berlin/Amsterdam

August 19: Melbourne

August 23: Melbourne

August 26: Sydney

September 10-15: Melbourne

September 25-30: Melbourne

October 4: Melbourne

October 9: Melbourne

October 20: Canberra/Sydney

October 29: Melbourne

October 30: Melbourne

November 7: Melbourne

November 20: Melbourne

November 23: Melbourne

November 29 - December 1: Canberra

December 6: Melbourne

December 12: Melbourne

December 17: Melbourne

December 21: Washington

2019

January 7-9: Hobart

Postscript

February 2019: California

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781925835144

1925835146

9781925835137

1925835138

OCLC:

1443083622