The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk - Softcover

Shilts, Randy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312019009 ISBN 13: 9780312019006

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 1988

Synopsis

The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. His is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.

About this title

About the Author

Randy Shilts was born in 1951, in Davenport, Iowa. One of the first openly gay journalists hired at a major newspaper, he 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 The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic (1987), and Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military (1993). He also wrote extensively for many major newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Esquire, The Los Angeles Times, and The Advocate. And the Band Played On was made into a docudrama that was broadcast on HBO in 1993.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312019009
• ISBN 13: 9780312019006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 388