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There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in practice, to stigmatize them. Nuns are rarely classed as deviants for the same reason, although if they obey their vows they clearly differ very significantly from the great majority of people.

Dennis Altman

Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.

Dennis Altman

Dennis Altman

Dennis Altman

Born: August 16, 1943 (age 81)

Bio: Dennis Patkin Altman is an Australian academic and pioneering gay rights activist.

Known for:

Homosexual; oppression and liberation (1971)
Global Sex (2001)
The End of the Homosexual? (2013)
AIDS in the mind of America (1982)
Queer Wars (2016)

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