When the Band Played On - The Life of Randy Shilts, America's Trailblazing Gay Journalist

When the Band Played On: The Life of Randy Shilts, America's Trailblazing Gay Journalist



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Michael G. Lee | 2024 | ISBN: 0914090305 | English | 320 pages | ePUB | 2 MB

Randy Shilts was the preeminent LGBTQ+ reporter of his generation.

He was the first openly gay reporter assigned to a gay beat at a mainstream paper and one of the nation’s most influential chroniclers of gay history, politics, and culture. Shilts wrote three seminal works on the community: The Mayor of Castro Street, on the life, assassination, and legacy of Harvey Milk; And the Band Played On, detailing the failure of politics as usual during the early AIDS epidemic; and Conduct Unbecoming, a history of the US military’s mistreatment of LGBTQ servicemembers.