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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shilts, Randy, author.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milk, Harvey.

San Francisco (Calif.)--Politics and government--20th century.

San Francisco (Calif.).

Gay liberation movement--California--San Francisco.

Gay liberation movement.

Politicians--California--San Francisco--Biography.

Politicians.

Gay politicians--California--San Francisco--Biography.

Gay politicians.

San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography.

Politics and government.

California--San Francisco.

Genre:

Biography.

collective biographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 388 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Life & times of Harvey Milk

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, c1982.

New York : St. Martin's Press, [1982]

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.

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.

Notes:

"Expansion of 'The life and death of Harvey Milk, ' first published in Christopher Street magazine in March 1979"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

0312523300

9780312523305

0312019009

9780312019006

OCLC:

7948538