The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of... by Randy Shilts

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Known as “The Mayor of Castro Street” even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk’s personal life, public career, and final assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. It is a story full of personal... read more

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“"Masturbation can be fun, but it does not take the place of the real thing. It is about time that the gay community stopped playing with itself and get down to the real thing."”
Harvey Milk

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First came the feeling of being different.

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Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Prologue

PART I: THE YEARS WITHOUT HOPE
1. The Men without Their Shirts
2. Gay Everyman
3. Judy Garland's Dead
4. Sodom by the Sea

PART 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

PART III: SUPERVISOR HARVEY MILK
12. Media Star
13. Willkommen Castro
14. Deadline Pressure
15. Curtain Call
16. No Cross, No Crown

PART IV: THE LEGEND BEGINS
17. Justice and Thieves
18. The Final Act

Epilogue
Appendix
Notes on Sources
Index

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Randy Shilts (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: St Martins Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1982
ISBN: 0312523300
Page Count: 388

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Library of Congress: F869.S353M547 1988
Dewey: 979.4610530924

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Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Levels of Government › Local Government
Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › California
Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Political
Books › Gay & Lesbian › Biographies & Memoirs › Gay
Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups
Books › Gay & Lesbian › Nonfiction
Books › Literature & Fiction

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