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Dennis Altman

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Dennis Altman is a Professorial Fellow at La Trobe University and the author of 12 books, including most recently, The End of the Homosexual?

September 2022

  • Proclamation of King Charles III

    double quotation markThere’s one way to make Australia’s path to a republic easier – for King Charles to endorse it

    Dennis Altman
    It would be fitting if the monarch were to follow his mother’s lead and acknowledge the need for change in Britain’s former colonies

November 2017

  • People celebrate after the announcement of the same-sex marriage postal survey result in front of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, 15 November 2017.

    double quotation markAustralia has voted for marriage equality. The battle now moves to the Senate

    Dennis Altman
    We might have legal same-sex marriage by Christmas, but the campaign has left deep scars on many people after enduring this test of basic acceptance

October 2017

  • A message in support of a Yes vote in the marriage equality and asylum seekers in Sydney's inner west

    double quotation markThe marriage survey is a start, but what happens next for equality?

    Dennis Altman
    The marriage equality campaign raises larger questions about freedom and equality that will bubble long after the vote

September 2017

  • Tony Abbott

    double quotation markOn equal marriage, Tony Abbott is like a Stuart king – forgetting and learning nothing

    Dennis Altman
    Right wingers have used the battle for marriage equality as part of a larger cultural war, but activists on the left are mobilised and will not disappear

March 2014

  • Participants take part in the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade in Sydney.

    double quotation markThe power of Mardi Gras: for a few hours, full equality is real

    Dennis Altman
    Dennis Altman: A few nostalgic radicals claim the gay and lesbian festival is no longer political, but the very fact that these accusations can be made suggests how far things have changed

November 2013

  • Christos

    Australia culture blog
    Christos Tsiolkas: 'I learnt to feel Australian by travelling to Europe'

    The author of The Slap and Barracuda on being Greek, gay and working class – and not writing a coming-out novel

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