The mayor of Castro Street : the life & times of Harvey Milk / Randy Shilts.
Shilts, Randy.
2008
F869.S353 M547 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
The mayor of Castro Street : the life & times of Harvey Milk / Randy Shilts.
Author
Shilts, Randy.
Edition
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
ISBN
9780312560850 paperback
0312560850 paperback
Publication Details
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2008.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 388 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Call Number
F869.S353 M547 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
979.4/61053
Summary
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.
Note
Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1982.
"This book is an expansion of 'The life and death of Harvey Milk, ' first published in Christopher Street magazine in March 1979"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-380) and index.
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Acknowledgments
Author's note
Prologue
pt. I. The years without hope
1. The men without their shirts
2. Gay everyman
3. Judy Garland's dead
4. Sodom by the sea
pt. II. The mayor of Castro Street
5. Politics as theater
6. The early invaders
7. The first skirmish
8. Gay Main Street
9. Harvey Milk vs. The Machine
10. Orange Tuesday
11. Showdown on Castro Street
pt. III. Supervisor Harvey Milk
12. Media star
13. Willkommen Castro
14. Deadline pressure
15. Curtain call
16. No cross, no crown
pt. IV. The legend begins
17. Justice and thieves
18. The final act
Epilogue
Appendix
I.A populist looks at the city, speech to the Joint International Longshoremen & Warehouseman's Union of San Francisco, September 10, 1973
II. A city of neighborhoods, address at inaugural dinner, January 10, 1978
III. The hope speech, keynote address to Gay Caucus of California Democratic Council (San Diego), March 10, 1978
IV. That's what America is, speech at Gay Freedom Day rally, June 25, 1978
V. Harvey Milk's political will, tape-recorded November 18, 1977
Notes on sources
Index.

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