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Randy Shilts
(1951-1994)
Who Was Randy Shilts?
Randy Shilts was one of the first openly gay journalists to write for a major newspaper.
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His writing focused on LGBT issues, including the struggle for gay rights. He was the author of And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic (1987), a bestseller about the start of America's AIDS epidemic.
The book made Shilts a trusted commentator on AIDS, to the point that he was the closing speaker at 1989's Fifth International AIDS Conference in Montreal. Shilts also wrote The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982) and the bestselling Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S.
Military, Vietnam to the Persian Gulf (1993).
Early Life and Education
Randy Martin Shilts was born in Davenport, Iowa, on August 8, 1951.
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Shilts was the third of six sons born to Bud and Norma Shilts. He was raised in a politically conservative and religious environment in Aurora, Illinois. Shilts' mother w