By Robert Aldrich, Garry Wotherspoon
Who is Who in modern homosexual and Lesbian heritage: From global conflict II to the current Day offers a entire smooth biographical survey of homosexuality within the Western global. between these incorporated are:* arguable political activists - Peter Tatchell; man Hocquenghem; Harvey Milk* Pop icons - David Bowie; ok d lang; Boy George* Groundbreaking artists, writers and filmmakers - Pier Paolo Pasolini; Derek Jarman; David Hockney* Intellectuals who've formed and altered the fashionable figuring out of sexuality - Michel Foucault; Simone de Beauvoir; Alfred Kinsey* Over 500 entries - transparent, informative and relaxing to learn - increase a wonderfully thorough evaluation of homosexual and lesbian lifestyles in our time.
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However, it was on concert and nightclub stages that he achieved popular acclaim; he was possibly the only performer of the last half century to pack Radio City and Carnegie Hall without exposure on television or in films or singing Top Ten hits. Allen returned fairly frequently to Australia, and in 1980 debuted ‘I Still Call Australia Home’, now regarded by some as that country’s true national anthem. The national airline Qantas used it for their advertising campaign. When Gregory Connell, his partner since 1973, was diagnosed with HIV/ AIDS, Allen worked ever more tirelessly until his own death from the disease in 1992.
Almendros’s father, Herminio Almendros, was a liberal pedagogue who worked for the Spanish Republic’s educational institutions then went into exile to Cuba in 1938, when Francoism became a threat for left-leaning intellectuals. Young Néstor was left behind until the Spanish political climate became asphyxiating and he decided to follow his father’s footsteps in 1948. He trained as a cinematographer in both France and Italy, although Cuba remained very close to his heart throughout his professional career.
He began by studying medicine at the University of Pavia, but soon transferred to Milan to study jurisprudence, in which he eventually took his degree in 1955. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris for two years while his Italian professor taught there. From 1957 he worked for the same professor at the University of Rome as a research assistant, the first rung of the Italian academic ladder. In 1965 Arbasino abandoned the idea of an academic career because of the ‘insupportable conditions’ of the Italian university system.