Unrequited Love: Diary of an Accidental Activist

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...