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Dennis Altman
Dennis Patkin Altman AM (born 1943) is an Australian academic and gay rights activist.
Dennis Patkin Altman was born in 1943 in Sydney, New South Wales, to Jewish immigrant parents, and spent most of his childhood in Hobart, Tasmania.
In 1964 he won a Fulbright scholarship to Cornell University, where he began working with American gay activists.
Returning to Australia in 1969, Altman taught politics at the University of Sydney.[citation needed]
In 1971, Altman published his first book, Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation – considered an important intellectual contribution to the gay liberation movements in the English-speaking world. Among his ideas were "the polymorphous whole" as well as "the end of the homosexual", in which the potential for both heterosexual and homosexual behaviour becomes a widespread cultural and psychological phenomenon.
Altman was a contributor to the New York City-based gay liberation newspaper Come Out!, published by the Gay Liberation Front, writing two articles for them in 1970 and their last issue in 1972.
One of Altman's most notable speeches was delivered during the first Gay Liberation Group meeting at the University of Sydney on 19 January 1972. It was reprinted as the chapter "Forum on Sexual Liberation" in his book Coming out in the Seventies.
In 1985, he became a lecturer at La Trobe University, where he later became a professor of politics.[citation needed] He wrote In the Mind of America (1986) and Power and Community (1994), both about HIV/AIDS.
Dennis Altman
Dennis Patkin Altman AM (born 1943) is an Australian academic and gay rights activist.
Dennis Patkin Altman was born in 1943 in Sydney, New South Wales, to Jewish immigrant parents, and spent most of his childhood in Hobart, Tasmania.
In 1964 he won a Fulbright scholarship to Cornell University, where he began working with American gay activists.
Returning to Australia in 1969, Altman taught politics at the University of Sydney.[citation needed]
In 1971, Altman published his first book, Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation – considered an important intellectual contribution to the gay liberation movements in the English-speaking world. Among his ideas were "the polymorphous whole" as well as "the end of the homosexual", in which the potential for both heterosexual and homosexual behaviour becomes a widespread cultural and psychological phenomenon.
Altman was a contributor to the New York City-based gay liberation newspaper Come Out!, published by the Gay Liberation Front, writing two articles for them in 1970 and their last issue in 1972.
One of Altman's most notable speeches was delivered during the first Gay Liberation Group meeting at the University of Sydney on 19 January 1972. It was reprinted as the chapter "Forum on Sexual Liberation" in his book Coming out in the Seventies.
In 1985, he became a lecturer at La Trobe University, where he later became a professor of politics.[citation needed] He wrote In the Mind of America (1986) and Power and Community (1994), both about HIV/AIDS.