The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk

By Randy Shilts

Book Overview

"The Mayor of Castro Street" is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. His is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312019009
• ISBN13: 9780312019006
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A Man Without Fear

Author Randy Shilts was a journalist before he became a best selling author (And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military). His chronicling of the life of Harvey Milk from New York to San Francisco bears witness to the everyman struggles of gay men of that period. From the arrests and harassments in bars to the ultimate...

Remembering Harvey Milk

Shilts, Randy. "The Mayor of Castro Street", St. Martin's, 2008. Remembering Harvey Milk Amos Lassen Harvey Milk is an icon in gay history and now with the film, Milk" with an amazing performance by Sean Penn, there is a renewed interest in the man that did so much to advance gay rights. St. Martin's has reissued Randy Shilts' biography of Milk, "The Mayor of Castro Street", which is a remarkable study of Milk as well as...

"If a bullet should enter my brain..."

Randy Shilts's intricately researched biography of one of the greatest gay activists of all time, Harvey Milk, is not only a political biography, but a chronology of an entire political movement. This is the second book I've read by Randy Shilts, the first being And the Band Played On. While there are certainly some differences between the two, Shilts's imaginative narrative writing is the same. The Mayor of Castro Street...

Gay History Well Worth Reading

In The Mayor of Castro Street, the late Randy Shilts paints a vivid picture, not only of the life of gay politician Harvey Milk, but of the fight for gay rights in 1970's San Francisco and the nation as a whole. After a description of the events immediately following Milk's death, Shilts begins the book with Milk's youth in New York City. He briefly describes Milk's years in New York, and spends the vast majority of the...

excellent

this is an excellent recollection of the life, times, deeds and death of a man who dared to stand and die for the rights of not just gays but all minorities