Martin Smith — Australia's first gay historian
Author(s): Paul Knobel
History | Australian/Aotearoa | Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Martin Smith (1932–90) was journalist, poet, playwright, Jewish historian and gay historian. He was an eccentric in a nation lacking in eccentrics. From a gay and lesbian perspective, his efforts at writing gay and lesbian history, however imperfect, constitutes his most enduring achievement. He attempted to chronicle and develop a gay culture.
Paul Knobel, poet and historian, has searched the archives to come up with the first mongraph on one of our community's pioneer activists and historians.
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- : consignment
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- : June 2009
- : books
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- : Paul Knobel