February 17, 1994(1994-02-17) (aged 42) Guerneville, California, U.S.
Occupation
Journalist, author
Alma mater
University of Oregon
Period
1975–1993
Genre
History
Notable work
The Mayor of Castro Street And the Band Played On Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military
Spouse
Barry Barbieri
Randy Shilts (August 8, 1951 – February 17, 1994) was an American journalist and author. After studying journalism at the University of Oregon, Shilts began working as a reporter for both The Advocate and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as for San Francisco Bay Area television stations. In the 1980s, he was noted for being the first openly gay reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.[1]
His first book, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, was a biography of LGBT activist Harvey Milk. His second book, And the Band Played On, chronicled the history of the AIDS epidemic. Despite some controversy surrounding the book in the LGBT community, Shilts was praised for his meticulous documentation of an epidemic that was little-understood at the time. It was later made into an HBO film of the same name in 1993. His final book, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, examined discrimination against lesbians and gays in the military.
Shilts garnered several accolades for his work. He was honored with the 1988 Outstanding Author award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the 1990 Mather Lectureship at Harvard University, and the 1993 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists' Association. Diagnosed with HIV in 1985, Shilts died of an AIDS-related illness in 1994 at the age of 42.
^Kinsella, James (1989). Covering the plague : AIDS and the American media. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. p. 162. ISBN 0-8135-1481-9. OCLC 20016426. Archived from the original on February 2, 2023. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
RandyShilts (August 8, 1951 – February 17, 1994) was an American journalist and author. After studying journalism at the University of Oregon, Shilts...
it was never something that happened to those other people. —RandyShilts, 1983 Shilts decided to write And the Band Played On after attending an awards...
The RandyShilts Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of non-fiction of relevance to the gay community....
in 1984." Shilts 1987, p. 495. Green 2011. Francis 2012. Shilts 1987, p. 143. Shilts 1987, p. 186. PBS 2006. hiv.gov HIV/AIDS Timeline. Shilts 1987, p. 214...
1982, freelance reporter RandyShilts completed his first book: a biography of Milk, titled The Mayor of Castro Street. Shilts wrote the book while unable...
Street is a 1982 biography of Harvey Milk, written by RandyShilts. Kirkus Reviews wrote that "Shilts' interwoven account of the emergence of San Francisco...
Lesbian America. pg. 8. New York, Warner Books. ISBN 0-446-67237-8 Shilts, Randy (1982). The Mayor of Castro Street. pg. 56-57. New York: St. Martin's...
was subsequently propagated by the San Francisco Chronicle journalist RandyShilts in his book And the Band Played On in 1987. William Darrow, behavioral...
to the New York Times Editor’s Choice Recommended Books, won the 2021 RandyShilts Award and was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for History. "Cervini...
from the original on January 24, 2013. Retrieved December 25, 2012. Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. New...
1980 Randy J. Shams, American guitarist Randy Shannon (born 1966), American football coach Randy Sharp, American singer-songwriter RandyShilts (1951–1994)...
person to appear on the cover of a U.S. newsmagazine. According to author RandyShilts, "It marked the first time the young gay movement had made the cover...
Photographs of the real people from RandyShilts' history of the AIDS crisis "And the Band Played On" Shilts, Randy, And the Band Played On, St. Martin's...
Prevention (CDC). The book and subsequent film And the Band Played On, by RandyShilts documented her efforts regarding these issues; she was played by Glenne...
until his death in 1984, and was once called "Patient Zero" by author RandyShilts; this claim was later refuted Grethe Rask — Danish physician infected...
AIDS refused by his editor in early 1982, whereas the Chronicle hired RandyShilts to report on AIDS full-time in 1982. Campbell and Conant featured in...
While the closures were supported by some in the gay community (such as RandyShilts), others—including the gay press, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and...
Intelligent Agent (1995) - Travel through the minds of Rudy Rucker, RandyShilts, Joshua Quittner, and others. Member Pages (1997–1998) - Template-based...
school if he couldn't find a simple neoplasm," Ford told journalist RandyShilts later. "People just didn't need this drug unless there was an underlying...
he received both his undergraduate and master's degree in history. Shilts, Randy (December 2007) [1987]. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and...
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