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Dennis Altman


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Dennis Altman is a Professorial Fellow in Human Security at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard.

He has written eleven books exploring sexuality and politics, and their inter-relationship in Australia, the United States, and now globally. These include The Homosexualization of America, AIDS and the New Puritanism, Rehearsals for Change, The Comfort of Men (a novel), and his memoir Defying Gravity. His book Global Sex (Chicago University Press) has been translated into five languages. Most recently he published Gore Vidal’s America (Polity), 51st State? (Scribe)and The End of the Homosexual? (UQP).

In 2008, Altman was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.

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Queer Wars

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Death in the Sauna

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Global Sex

3.34 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions
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Homosexual: Oppresion & Lib...

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The End of the Homosexual?

3.89 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions
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God Save The Queen: the Str...

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Gore Vidal's America

4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions
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The Comfort Of Men

3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions
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God Save the Queen: the str...

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“[Queer theory is] the bastard child of the gay and lesbian movement and postmodern literary theory, which like other unwed mothers has been very loath to acknowledge the father.”
Dennis Altman, Homosexual: Oppresion & Liberation

“While one would expect a liberated society to regard bisexuality as the norm, this view would not mean that all persons would behave bisexually … The nonrepressed person recognizes his bisexual potential, he is not some ideal person midway along the Kinsey behavioral scale. People would still fall in love and form relationships, and these relationships would be homosexual as well as heterosexual. What would be different is that the social difference between the two would vanish, and once this happened we would lose the feeling of being limited, of having to choose between an exclusively straight or exclusively gay world.”
Dennis Altman, Homosexual: Oppresion & Liberation

“Promiscuity' - a word best defined as anyone who has more sex than you.”
Dennis Altman, The End of the Homosexual?



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