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in 1981, becoming "the first openly gay reporter with a gay 'beat' in the American mainstream press." AIDS, the disease that would later kill him, first came to nationwide attention that same year and soon Shilts devoted himself to covering the unfolding story of the disease and its medical, social,
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In 2024, it was announced that author Michael Lee would write a biography about Shilts's life. About the biography, Lee stated, "I think that he has a very substantial and complicated legacy. And I think that that legacy still plays out today. And I'm hoping that with this book it captures more of
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After his death, his longtime friend and assistant Linda Alband explained the motivation that drove Shilts: "He chose to write about gay issues for the mainstream precisely because he wanted other people to know what it was like to be gay. If they didn't know, how were things going to change?" In
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was a "publication that had all these dirty classified ads in it. That I couldn’t send the publication to my parents that I worked for because it was all filled up with 'Gay white man wants somebody to piss on,' you know?" He subsequently worked as a freelance journalist until he was hired as a
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and political ramifications. During the early years of the AIDS crisis, he denounced San Francisco's gay leaders as "inept" and "a bunch of jerks," accusing them of hiding the emerging epidemic. In 1984, Shilts controversially supported closing the city's
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Shilts' tenacious reporting was highly praised by others in both the gay and straight communities who saw him as "the pre-eminent chronicler of gay life and spokesman on gay issues". Shilts was honored with the 1988 Outstanding Author award from the
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publicly as gay, and ran for student office with the slogan "Come out for Shilts." Randy Shilts was one of the first openly gay journalists to write for a major US newspaper. His writing focused on LGBT issues, including the struggle for gay rights.
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in San Francisco, California, being survived by his partner Barry Barbieri, his mother, and his brothers. His brother Gary had conducted a commitment service for the couple the previous year. After a funeral service at
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I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole
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interview in the spring of 1993, Shilts observed, "HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more
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and would sell over 700,000 copies until 2004. 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.
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But this week, Shilts announced that he's known he was HIV-positive since 1985... Shilts said he kept his condition secret for fear it would detract from his role as a reporter on AIDS issues.
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Perhaps because Shilts remains controversial among some gays, there is no monument to him. Nor is there a street named for him, as there are for other San Francisco writers such as
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Although Shilts was applauded for bringing public attention to gay civil rights issues and the AIDS crisis, he was also harshly criticized (and spat upon on
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and a little less character." Despite being effectively homebound and on oxygen, he was able to attend the Los Angeles screening of the HBO film version of
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Shilts graduated near the top of his class in 1975, but as an openly gay man, he struggled to find full-time employment in what he characterized as the
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described Shilts as "a hero" and characterized his books as "without question the most important works of literature affecting gay people."
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between 1981 and 1985 as number 44 on a list of the top 100 works of journalism in the United States in the 20th century.
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Shilts garnered several accolades for his work. He was honored with the 1988 Outstanding Author award from the
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Shilts bequeathed 170 cartons of papers, notes, and research files to the local history section of the
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environment of newspapers and television stations at that time. Shilts wrote for gay news magazine
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television stations. In the 1980s, he was noted for being the first openly gay reporter for the
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he had declined to be told the results of his HIV test until he had completed the writing of
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Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf
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Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf
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In addition to his extensive journalism, Shilts wrote three books. His first book,
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LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame, National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
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in 1993, with many big-name actors in starring or supporting roles, including
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that complexity in a way that actually portrays the full human that he was."
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reporter summed up the achievement of his late "brash and gutsy" colleague:
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Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today,
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in 1985, Shilts died of an AIDS-related illness in 1994 at the age of 42.
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and suffered a collapsed lung; the following year, he was diagnosed with
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in San Francisco to slow the spread of AIDS. Fellow Bay Area journalist
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people who have "made significant contributions in their fields."
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called Shilts "a traitor to his own kind". In a note included in
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1998, Shilts was memorialized in the Hall of Achievement at the
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk,
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by Howard J. Brown, M.D., Introduction by Randy Shilts, 1976 (
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is an extensively researched account of the early days of the
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SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
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Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military,
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in August 1993. Shilts died at 42 on February 17, 1994, at
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School of Journalism and Communication Hall of Achievement
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The Journalist of Castro Street. The Life of Randy Shilts.
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Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military
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The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts
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Warren, Jennifer; Paddock, Richard (February 18, 1994).
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Covering the plague : AIDS and the American media
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by Andrew E. Stoner, released May 30, 2019 from the
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Index

Shilts in 1987
Davenport, Iowa
Guerneville, California
University of Oregon
The Mayor of Castro Street
And the Band Played On
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military
University of Oregon
reporter
The Advocate
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Bay Area
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk
And the Band Played On
AIDS epidemic
HBO film of the same name
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf
lesbians and gays in the military
American Society of Journalists and Authors
Harvard University
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists' Association
HIV
Davenport, Iowa
Aurora, Illinois
University of Oregon
Oregon Daily Emerald
came out
homophobic
David Goodstein

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