The mayor of Castro Street
Subtitle: the life & times of Harvey Milk
By: Randy Shilts.
Series: Stonewall Inn editions ;; 12
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Milk, Harvey; Gay liberation movement -- California -- San Francisco; Politicians -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Politics and government; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography
Description: 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.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.