Unrequited Love: Diary of an Accidental Activist (Biography)

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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 Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation is regarded as a classic work in its field. Since then, Altman’s writings have touched in various ways upon the shifting terrain of sexual politics, including the AIDs epidemic, which he witnessed from the onset while living in New York. Altman’s memoir, Unrequited Love, is as wide-ranging and remarkable as his career, moving between Australia, the United States, Europe and parts of Asia, and influenced by encounters with intellectuals and writers including James Baldwin, Gough Whitlam, Dorothy Porter, Christos Tsiolkas, Anne Summers, Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag.  Written through the lens of recent activism and the global rise of authoritarianism, this is a story of a half century of activism, intellectualism, conflict and friendship. 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 6: Melbourne 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