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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk »

Authors: Randy Shilts
ISBN-13: 9780312560850, ISBN-10: 0312560850
Format: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: October 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Randy Shilts

Randy Shilts was one of the first openly gay journalists hired at a major newspaper and worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for thirteen years. He died of AIDS in 1994 at his home in the Sonoma County redwoods in California. He was the author of several groundbreaking bestsellers, including And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987) and Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military (1993).

Book Synopsis

The definitive story of the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the '70s.

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Author's Note	xiii
	Prologue	xv
Part I	The Years Without Hope	1
1	The Men without Their Shirts	3
2	Gay Everyman	12
3	Judy Garland's Dead	30
4	Sodom by the Sea	47
Part II	The Mayor of Castro Street	67
5	Politics as Theater	69
6	The Early Invaders	81
7	The First Skirmish	95
8	Gay Main Street	111
9	Harvey Milk vs. The Machine	127
10	Orange Tuesday	153
11	Showdown on Castro Street	169
Part III	Supervisor Harvey Milk	187
12	Media Star	189
13	Willkommen Castro	211
14	Deadline Pressure	229
15	Curtain Call	252
16	No Cross, No Crown	263
Part IV	The Legend Begins	297
17	Justice and Thieves	299
18	The Final Act	324
	Epilogue	340
Appendix I.	A Populist Looks at the City Speech to the Joint International Longshoremen & Warehouseman's Union of San Francisco September 10, 1973	349
Appendix II.	A City of Neighborhoods Address at Inaugural Dinner January 10, 1978	353
Appendix III.	The Hope Speech Keynote Address to Gay Caucus of California Democratic Council (San Diego) March 10, 1978	359
Appendix IV.	That's What America Is Speech at Gay Freedom Day Rally June 25, 1978	364
Appendix V.	Harvey Milk's Political Will Tape-recorded November 18, 1977	372
	Notes on Sources	376
	Index	381