num_pages: 380
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
titlecomplete: The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
genres: LGBT, Historical, Gay, History, American History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction, Queer, Politics
ratings_count: 4313
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin