This was a really good book. Randy did a great job of telling the story, and I think this ought to be required reading for all students in High School. Harvey was not assassinated merely because he was gay. He was not murdered for simple ideology. There is a lot going on here that lead to the dou...
Previously having read And The Band Played On, I knew I would enjoy this book before I read it. Since Shilts was a journalist and an author, his narration is gripping. For many years, I have attempted to understand the experiences of my gay brothers and sisters so I can be a better ally. And book...
Ribbons in the colors of the Catalonian province, yellow and orange, laid silently on the street next to the cardboard flowers by the hand-scrawled epitaph. It had been years since Cleve Jones fulfilled his adolescent dream and come to San Francisco for his first San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Par...
His long legs undoubtedly were stretched in one of those delicious poses that so often got him on the pages of Blueboy and Torso, Cleve thought. Cleve preferred the earnest young idealists of Castro Street to the sophisticated Manhattan scene, but there was something undeniably alluring about the...