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Dennis Altman was born on 16 August, 1943 in Australia, is an Australian academic and activist. Discover Dennis Altman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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1943

Dennis Patkin Altman (born 16 August 1943) is an Australian academic and gay rights activist.

Altman was born in Sydney, New South Wales to Jewish immigrant parents, and spent most of his childhood in Hobart, Tasmania.

1964

In 1964 he won a Fulbright scholarship to Cornell University, where he began working with American gay activists.

1969

Returning to Australia in 1969, he taught politics at the University of Sydney.

1970

Altman was also 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.

Altman has delivered speeches on the topic of sexual liberation.

1971

In 1971, Altman published his first book, Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation – considered an important intellectual contribution to the ideas that shaped gay liberation movements in the English-speaking world.

Among his ideas were "the polymorphous whole" and his posing of the notion of "the end of the homosexual", in which the potential for both heterosexual and homosexual behaviour becomes a widespread cultural and psychological phenomenon.

1972

One of his most notable speeches was delivered during the first Gay Liberation Group meeting at the University of Sydney on 19 January 1972.

It was called 'Human beings can be much more than they have allowed themselves to be'.

1985

Later in 1985, Altman moved to La Trobe University, where he later became a professor of politics.

1986

He has written in the Mind of America (1986) and Power and Community (1994), regarding the topics of HIV and AIDS.

Altman is a professorial fellow in the Institute for Human Security at La Trobe University.

1997

In 1997 Altman wrote an essay, "Global gaze/global gays", in which he proposes that there are cultural connections between homosexuals in different countries and there is a nascent global gay culture.

In his preface to The City and the Pillar, Gore Vidal writes that Altman brought the book back with him but it was seized at Sydney Airport and subsequently declared obscene by a judge who observed that the Australian obscenity law was "absurd", thus leading to it being repealed sometime later.

2001

He was president of the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific (2001–2005), and has been a member of the governing council of the International AIDS Society.

2005

He was appointed the Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University in January 2005.

Altman supports organizations that are dedicated to creating a better life for homosexuals, serving on the Australian National Council on AIDS and other international organizations including the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific, of which (as of the 2005 Kobe ICAAP Congress) he is president.

In 2005 he was visiting professor of Australian studies at Harvard.

In 2005 he published Gore Vidal's America, a study of US author Gore Vidal's writings on history, politics, sex, and religion (Vidal, 2005).

2006

In October 2006 he was elected to the board of Oxfam Australia.

In July 2006, he was listed by The Bulletin as one of the 100 most influential Australians ever.

2008

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

At the APCOM HERO Awards 2021, he was awarded the Shivananda Khan Award for Extraordinary Achievement.

2009

Since 2009 Altman has been the director of the Institute for Human Security at La Trobe University.

2010

In 2010 he stepped down from this position.

Altman is a longtime patron of the Australian Queer Archives.

He has been deeply involved with government and community responses to HIV/AIDS in Australia and the Asia Pacific.

2013

In March 2013 Altman wrote about the death of his partner of 22 years, Anthony Smith, who died from lung cancer in November 2012.

In 2023, Altman published his first fiction book, a murder mystery.