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'In The End of the Homosexual? – part memoir/part politics – Dennis Altman connects what has happened within the changing queer world over the past forty years to larger social, political and cultural trends. This is a case study of both local and global change, yet one told from personal experience.

'Written engagingly, this timely new book explores the idea that major changes in the understanding of sexual and gender diversity reflect larger social and cultural shifts. For example, the internet has changed patterns of sexual behaviour as widely as did the contraceptive pill forty years ago. In both cases the changes were neither foreseen nor intended, and in both cases the impact of new technologies partly depended on political and ideological controls.

'Homosexuality has become a faultline for debates about western influence, and human rights. In this riveting and personally revealing work, Altman reflects on decades of cultural and political change and considers the future of sexuality: is this the end of the homosexual that gay liberationists predicted forty years ago?' (Publisher's blurb)

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[Review] The End of the Homosexual? Yorick Smaal , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , December vol. 39 no. 4 2015; (p. 572-573)

— Review of The End of the Homosexual? Dennis Altman , 2013 single work autobiography
Book Reviews : The End of the Homosexual? Scott McKinnon , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 21 no. 1 2014; (p. 109-110)

— Review of The End of the Homosexual? Dennis Altman , 2013 single work autobiography
Considering the End of the Homosexual Frank Bongiorno , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 February 2014; (p. 20-21)

— Review of The End of the Homosexual? Dennis Altman , 2013 single work autobiography
Review : The End of the Homosexual? Walter Mason , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , September 2013; (p. 61)

— Review of The End of the Homosexual? Dennis Altman , 2013 single work autobiography
The End of the Homosexual or the Rebirth of Gay Liberation : Dennis Altman’s The End of the Homosexual? Simon Copland , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Crikey , August 2013;

— Review of The End of the Homosexual? Dennis Altman , 2013 single work autobiography
Dennis Altman : The End of the Homosexual Walter Mason , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2013;

— Review of The End of the Homosexual? Dennis Altman , 2013 single work autobiography
Doing a Melba Robert Reynolds , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 354 2013; (p. 38-39)

— Review of The End of the Homosexual? Dennis Altman , 2013 single work autobiography
Considering the End of the Homosexual Frank Bongiorno , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 February 2014; (p. 20-21)

— Review of The End of the Homosexual? Dennis Altman , 2013 single work autobiography
The End of the Homosexual or the Rebirth of Gay Liberation : Dennis Altman’s The End of the Homosexual? Simon Copland , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Crikey , August 2013;

— Review of The End of the Homosexual? Dennis Altman , 2013 single work autobiography
Review : The End of the Homosexual? Walter Mason , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , September 2013; (p. 61)

— Review of The End of the Homosexual? Dennis Altman , 2013 single work autobiography
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