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

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Macmillan + ORM, Oct 14, 2008 - History - 409 pages

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.
Known as "The Mayor of Castro Street" even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal and political life is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice, and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.
The Mayor of Castro Street 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.
Harvey Milk has been the subject of numerous books and movies, including the Academy Award–winning 1984 documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk. His life is also the basis of a 2008 major motion picture, Milk, starring Sean Penn.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Acknowledgments
The Men without Their Shirts
Gay Everyman
Judy Garlands Dead
Politics as Theater
The Early Invaders
The First Skirmish
Gay Main Street
Showdown on Castro Street
Willkommen Castro
No Cross No Crown
Justice and Thieves
Epilogue
Appendix
Address at Inaugural Dinner January 10 1978
Speech at Gay Freedom Day Rally June 25 1978

Harvey Milk vs The Machine
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
AuthorRandy Shilts
Editionreprint
PublisherMacmillan + ORM, 2008
ISBN1466829672, 9781466829671
Length409 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Biography & Autobiography / Political
History / United States / 20th Century
  
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