- Biography, Gay liberation movement, Gay politicians, History
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.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Randy Shilts
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 388
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, St. Martin's Griffin, Atlantic Books, Limited
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, Japanese, French, German
- ISBN
- 9781522689546
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Shilts was a pioneering gay American journalist and author. He worked as a freelance reporter for both The Advocate and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as for San Francisco Bay Area television stations. [Source][1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Shilts
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