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The mayor of Castro Street : the life & times of Harvey Milk / Randy Shilts.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2008Edition: First St. Martin's Griffin editionDescription: xvii, 388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780312560850
  • 0312560850
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 979.4/61053 22
LOC classification:
  • F869.S353 M547 2008
Contents:
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.
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.
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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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-380) and index.

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.

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.

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