Shilts, Randy
Born: Aug 08, 1951 AD
Died: 1994 AD, at 42 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Authors, Journalist, Writers
Died: 1994 AD, at 42 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Authors, Journalist, Writers
1951 - Randy Shilts, born on the 8th of August in Davenport, Iowa. He was a highly acclaimed, pioneering gay American journalist and author.
1971 - During his college days, he "came out" publicly as a gay man at age 20, and ran for student office with the slogan "Come out for Shilts."
1975 - Graduated at the University of Oregon major in Journalism.
1981 - He was finally hired as a national correspondent by the San Francisco Chronicle, becoming "the first openly gay reporter with a gay 'beat' in the American mainstream press".
1982 - His first book, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, is a biography of the first openly gay San Francisco politician, Harvey Milk, who was assassinated by a political rival.
1987 - His second book, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic was published.
- Won the Stonewall Book Award and brought him nationwide literary fame.
- He was found to be HIV positive in March.
1988 - Honoured with Outstanding Author award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
1990 - Awarded by Mather Lectureship at Harvard University.
1992 - Came down with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and suffered a collapsed lung.
1993 - His last book, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military: Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, which examined discrimination against lesbians and gays in the military, was published.
- Received Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists' Association.
- He came down with Kaposi's sarcoma.
1994 - Died, aged 42, at his ten-acre ranch in Guerneville, Sonoma County, California, on the 17th of February being survived by his partner, Barry Barbieri, his mother, and his brothers.
1999 - The Department of Journalism at New York University ranked his AIDS reporting for the Chronicle, as number 44 on a list of the top 100 works of journalism in the United States in the 20th century.
1971 - During his college days, he "came out" publicly as a gay man at age 20, and ran for student office with the slogan "Come out for Shilts."
1975 - Graduated at the University of Oregon major in Journalism.
1981 - He was finally hired as a national correspondent by the San Francisco Chronicle, becoming "the first openly gay reporter with a gay 'beat' in the American mainstream press".
1982 - His first book, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, is a biography of the first openly gay San Francisco politician, Harvey Milk, who was assassinated by a political rival.
1987 - His second book, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic was published.
- Won the Stonewall Book Award and brought him nationwide literary fame.
- He was found to be HIV positive in March.
1988 - Honoured with Outstanding Author award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
1990 - Awarded by Mather Lectureship at Harvard University.
1992 - Came down with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and suffered a collapsed lung.
1993 - His last book, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military: Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, which examined discrimination against lesbians and gays in the military, was published.
- Received Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists' Association.
- He came down with Kaposi's sarcoma.
1994 - Died, aged 42, at his ten-acre ranch in Guerneville, Sonoma County, California, on the 17th of February being survived by his partner, Barry Barbieri, his mother, and his brothers.
1999 - The Department of Journalism at New York University ranked his AIDS reporting for the Chronicle, as number 44 on a list of the top 100 works of journalism in the United States in the 20th century.
Page last updated: 9:48am, 07th May '07
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts (Paperback - Nov 27, 2007) In the first major book on AIDS, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts examines the making of an epidemic. Shilts researched and reported the book exhaustively, chronicling almost day-by-day...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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