{"title":"Peter Robinson","description":"Peter Robinson's first book, The Changing World of Gay Men, was published in 2008 and won The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Inaugural Raewyn Connell prize in 2010 for the best first book in Australian Sociology. 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