Morris, Charles
Morrison, Jack
Moscone, George
assassination of
autopsy of
burial of
California Senate resolution honoring
death threats against
FBI investigation of
memorial services for
1976 assembly race and
White’s reappointment and
Moscone, Gina
Most Holy Redeemer Parish
See also Castro Street neighborhood
Mulcahy, Eileen
Murphy, Cornelius
Murphy, Reg
Nardoza, Peter
National Gay Task Force
Navy, U.S.
Newman, Paul
New West magazine
New York City, Milk in
New York State College for Teachers at Albany
New York Times Magazine, The
Nichols, Rick
Nicoletta, Danny
Noble, Elaine
Norman, Tom
Nothenberg, Rudy
O’Connor, Capt. William
Officers for Justice (OFJ)
O’Horgan, Tom
Oklahoma, anti-gay legislation in
Orange County
Orange Tuesday
Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore
Pabich, Dick
Paperback Traffic
Payne, Medora
Peg’s Place brawl
Pendulum
Peoples Temple
Performing Artists for Milk
Peron, Dennis
Perry, Chris
Pier 39 project
Police (Police Department)
Gain as chief of
gay cops in
riot after White verdict and
after White’s assassination of Milk and Moscone
Police brutality and harassment
Police Commission
Police Officers’ Association (POA)
Presidio military base
Press, the
See also Media
Price, Leontyne
Proposition 6, See Briggs Initiative
Proposition 7
Quinn, Sally
Radicals
Randol, Tom
Reagan, Ronald
Real estate developers
Real estate speculators
Reed, Lou
Riis Park
Riot after White verdict
Rivaldo, Jim
Robinson, Frank
Rodwell, Craig
Rosman, Howard
Ross, Bob
Ryan, Leo
Ryckman, John
St. Claire, Bob
St. James, Margo
St. Paul, Minnesota
San Diego
San Francisco
history of gays in
as “Kook Capital,”
Milk’s 1969 stay in
Milk’s 1972 move to
1978 demonstrations in
See also Elections; and specific neighborhoods
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs Association
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Gay Democratic Club (later Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club)
San Francisco Labor Council
San Francisco Progress
San Francisco Tomorrow
San Francisco Young Democrats
Sarria, Jose
“Saturday Night Live,”
Save Our Children (From Homosexuality), Inc.
Save Our Human Rights
Sayão, Bidú
Schmidt, Doug
Scott, David
Seattle, Washington
Seely, Dennis
Seniora, Alfred
Silver, Carol Ruth
Silvistri, Doris
Simmons, Warren
Sipple, Oliver (Bill)
Smith, Arlo
Smith, (Joseph) Scott
Smith, Stan
Society for Individual Rights (SIR)
Spear, Allan
“Statement of Conscience,”
Stephens, Boyd
Stoen, Tim
Stokes, Rick
Stonewall Bar, raid on (1969)
Streisand, Barbra
Suicide
Al Asmussen’s
Joe Campbell’s attempt
gays and
Jack Lira’s
Jack McKinley and
Harvey Milk’s views on
Peoples Temple
Craig Rodwell’s attempt
Summa Corporation
Supreme Court, U.S.
Tango, Mildred
Tatum, Donn
Tay-Bush Inn
Taylor, Barbara
Taylor, Jerry
Teamsters
Time magazine
Toad Hall bar
Tunney, John
Turner, Joe
Tuttle, Bob
Union Labor Party
Unions
1975 elections and
See also specific unions
United Fund Against the Briggs Initiative
Vel, Frank
Veterans for Milk Committee
Vice squad
Wahl, John
Washington, gay march on
Washington Star
Wax, Mel
Weather Underground
Weiss, Mike
White, Dan
assassination of Moscone and Milk by
confession of
gay rights law and
manslaughter verdict for
Pier 39 project and
psychiatric center issue and
reactions to verdict against
reappointment issue and
resignation of
trial of
verdicts against
White, Mary Ann
Wichita, Kansas
Wiegardt, Billy
Wilde, Oscar
Wong, Michael
Woodward, Joanne
Woolden, Russ
World War II
Zane, Martland
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Blackbird by Larry Duplechan
Gay Priest by Malcolm Boyd
Privates by Gene Horowitz
Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll by Paul Monette
Conversations with My Elders by Boze Hadleigh
Epidemic of Courage by Lon Nungesser
One Last Waltz by Ethan Mordden
Gay Spirit by Mark Thompson, ed.
As If After Sex by Joseph Totchia
The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts
Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White
Alienated Affections by Seymour Kleinberg
Sunday’s Child by Edward Phillips
God of Ecstasy by Arthur Evans
Valley of the Shadow by Christopher Davis
Love Alone by Paul Monette
The Boys and Their Baby by Larry Wolff
On Being Gay by Brian McNaught
Parisian Lives by Samuel M. Steward
Living the Spirit by Will Roscoe, ed.
Everybody Loves You by Ethan Mordden
Untold Decades by Robert Patrick
Gay & Lesbian Poetry in Our Time by Carl Morse & Joan Larkin
Reports from the holocaust by Larry Kramer
Personal Dispatches by John Preston, ed.
Tangled Up in Blue by Larry Duplechan
How to Go to the Movies by Quentin Crisp
Just Say No by Larry Kramer
The Prospect of Detachment by Lindsley Cameron
The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories by Allen Barnett
Dancing on Tisha B’av by Lev Raphael
Arena of Masculinity by Brian Pronger
Boys Like Us by Peter McGehee
Don’t Be Afraid Anymore by Reverend Troy D. Perry with Thomas L.P. Swicegood
The Death of Donna-May Dean by Joey Manley
Sudden Strangers by Aaron Fricke and Walter Fricke
Profiles in Gay & Lesbian Courage by Reverend Troy D. Perry and Thomas L.P. Swicegood
Latin Moon in Manhattan by Jaime Manrique
On Ships at Sea by Madelyn Arnold
The Dream Life by Bo Huston
Sweetheart by Peter McGehee
Show Me the Way to Go Home by Simmons Jones
Winter Eyes by Lev Raphael
Boys on the Rock by John Fox
Dark Wind by John Jiler
End of the Empire by Denise Ohio
Copyright © 1982 by Randy Shilts
For information, write: St. Martin’s Press,
175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shilts, Randy.
The Mayor of Castro Street : the life and times of Harvey Milk / by Randy Shilts.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-312-01900-9 (pbk.)
1. Milk, Harvey. 2. Gay liberation movement—California—San Francisco. 3. Politicians—California—San Francisco—Biography. 4. San Francisco (Calif.)—Politics and government. 5. San Francisco (Calif.)—Biography. 1. Title.
88-1836
F869.S353M547 1988 979.4'61053'0924—dc19 [B]
CIP
The speeches of Harvey Milk are printed in full with the permission of the Estate of Harvey Milk, copyright © 1978 by Estate of Harvey Milk, all rights reserved.
Lyrics from “The Rock Will Wear Away.” Lyrics and music by Meg Christian and Holly Near, used with permission, copyright © 1976 by Thumbelina Music (BMI) and Herford Music (ASCAP). Thanks to Olivia Records.
Research for this book has previously appeared in New West, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Criminal Justice Publications, National Public Radio, KSAN-FM news, KTVU-TV’s “Ten O’Clock News” and KQED-TV’s “Newsroom,” “A Closer Look,” and “Evening Edition” programs.
The book is an expansion of “The Life and Death of Harvey Milk,” first published in Christopher Street magazine in March 1979.
eISBN 9781466829671
First eBook edition: September 2012