Beside My Self The Memoirs of a China Cabinet

BESIDE MY SELF is a memoir drawing on more than 100 years of queer politics, culture, epidemics and social life. It is partly told through items in Michael's china cabinet. He migrated to Australia from the UK as a child, and became a writer, activist and researcher in Australia. His previous publications include, with Jan Hutchinson, TwoTiming. Sex, Writing and the Writing of Sex (1991); A Guide to Gay and Lesbian Writing in Australia (1996) and Then and Now. Gay Men and HIV (2003).