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The Mayor of Castro Street

The Mayor of Castro Street

The Life and Times of Harvey Milk

by Randy Shilts
Publication Date: 15/03/1988

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A biography of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay city official in the nation, recounts his public and personal life, and examines the emergence of the San Francisco gay community as a social and political force.
ISBN:
9780312019006
9780312019006
Category:
Biography: historical
Publication Date:
15-03-1988
Language:
English
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
199.9x151.13x26.67mm
Weight:
0.38kg
Randy Shilts

Randy Shilts was a literary journalist working in the tradition of Norman Mailer and Truman Capote and became a pioneering voice in raising awareness of gay civil rights issues, as well as the AIDS crisis, and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists' Association in 1993. He found that he was HIV positive in 1987 and died in 1994. He also wrote The Mayor of Castro Street, a biography of Harvey Milk.

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