And the Band Played On
 And the Band Played On: Politics People and the AIDS Epidemic is a nonfiction book written by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts published in 1987. It chronicles the discovery and spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) with a special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then perceived as a specifically gay disease.