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Coming 10.08.24 from Chicago Review Press.

Randy Shilts was the preeminent LGBTQ reporter of his generation. Shilts was the first openly gay journalist assigned to a gay beat in the mainstream news and became one of the nation’s most influential and controversial chroniclers of gay history, politics, and culture. He wrote three seminal works on the community: The Mayor of Castro Street, on the life, assassination, and legacy of Harvey Milk; And the Band Played On, detailing the failure of politics as usual during the early AIDS epidemic; and Conduct Unbecoming, a history of the US military’s mistreatment of LGBTQ servicemembers.

Yet the intimate life story of Randy Shilts has been left unwritten, until now. When the Band Played On tells that story, recognizing his legacy as a trailblazing figure in gay activism, journalism, and public policy. Author Michael Lee conducted interviews with over 70 sources, including Shilts’s family, friends, college professors, colleagues, informants, lovers, and critics. The resulting narrative tells the tale of a singularly gifted voice, a talented yet insecure young man whose coming of age became intricately linked to the historic peaks and devastating perils of modern gay liberation.

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