Randy Shilts
Birth date: August 08, 1951
Died: February 17, 1994
Randy Shilts's Books
In the 25 years since this book was published, I've read it three times. This is the first time I've felt anything other than outrage, and have been able to notice the writing. Certainly I felt outrage as well this time, along with horror, anger, rage, etc. It's hard not to. The AIDS epidemic, a...
I remember this as an intense and painful book. I read it around 1993 or 1994, at a time when I knew several gays and straights in (or formerly in) the military and DADT had just become law. I imagine it would be very different to read it now, post-DADT, but probably still intense and painful.
I really struggled with how to rate this book. There's no doubt it's full of a great deal of information and the steps taken to try and 'humanise' the book and tell the stories of some of the people affected are laudable. However, it also makes it difficult to decide whether to read this as a fact...
4.5 stars. Oh so close to perfect. Full of strong reporting, both of Milk's life, his time in politics and the city of San Francisco's rise to prominence in the LGBT community, Shilts does a wonderful job of balancing the man Harvey Milk and the icon he became to the movement. As much as I love Gus ...
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