Description
Harvey Milk was the first "out" gay to be elected to public office anywhere in the world. His life mirrored the dramatic emergence of America's gay community in the 1970s and his brutal murder caused an outpouring of rage and grief expressed in a storm of rioting in San Francisco. This biography looks at Harvey Milk's life and times.
Table of Contents
Part 1 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 Theatre 6 The Early Invaders 7 The First Skirmish 8 Gay Main 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 Appendix 1. 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 Neighbourhoods Address at Inaugural Dinner January 10, 1978 111. 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 Milks' political Will Tape-recorded November 18, 1977.
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