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HOMOSEXUAL: OPPRESSION AND LIBERATION by DENNIS ALTMAN 242 pages. Outerbridge & Dienstfrey...
...time when most avowedly homosexual voices were those of shrill types with long hair and little reputation to lose. In the months since, a whole tumble of homosexuals have "come out of the closet" and rushed into print. Perhaps best among these accounts is a book by Australian Dennis Altman. Between them Miller and Altman measure just how far the "gay" liberation has come. Miller's book is a confession and a plea for understanding. Altman's book is a boast and a demand for social revolution...
...Altman, by contrast, feels free to polemicize in the more receptive atmosphere that Miller helped create. He is only 27, but his academic credentials are sound-a former Fulbright scholar from the University of Tasmania with a Cornell M.A. and lecturing experience at N.Y.U., he holds a lectureship at the University of Sydney. Altman's argument is that homosexuality is natural and good. It is society that is all wrong, by forcing the homosexual into the role of an oppressed minority. This makes the homosexual a revolutionary, along with oppressed and militant groups like blacks and women. Altman expounds...
...lineup who hit 20 or more home runs. Unlike the Tokyo Giants, who pride themselves on being "pureblood Japanese," the Orions have two gaijin (foreigners) in their murderer's row-Arturo Lopez (21 home runs), a former utility player for the New York Yankees, and Black Outfielder George Altman (30 homers), late of the Chicago Cubs. Lopez, who was raised in New York City and went to Japan to "give my kids a better environment," said last week: "I just can't wait to get back to Tokyo. I'm homesick...
...anything for Bob Altman now and for the rest of my life, en-nee-thing," she says. By asking her to take the part of a mystic birdwoman-spirit in Brewster McCloud (TIME, Jan. 4), Altman might have been abusing her loyalty, but she responded by supplying moments of melancholy, dizzy hilarity and aching sexuality to an otherwise benighted project...