The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
Known as “The Mayor of Castro Street” even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk’s personal life, public career, and final assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. It is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice, and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.\ Harvey Milk has been the subject...
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The definitive story of the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the '70s.
AcknowledgmentsxiAuthor's NotexiiiProloguexvPart IThe Years Without Hope11The Men without Their Shirts32Gay Everyman123Judy Garland's Dead304Sodom by the Sea47Part IIThe Mayor of Castro Street675Politics as Theater696The Early Invaders817The First Skirmish958Gay Main Street1119Harvey Milk vs. The Machine12710Orange Tuesday15311Showdown on Castro Street169Part IIISupervisor Harvey Milk18712Media Star18913Willkommen Castro21114Deadline Pressure22915Curtain Call25216No Cross, No Crown263Part IVThe Legend Begins29717Justice and Thieves29918The Final Act324Epilogue340Appendix I.A Populist Looks at the City Speech to the Joint International Longshoremen & Warehouseman's Union of San Francisco September 10, 1973349Appendix II.A City of Neighborhoods Address at Inaugural Dinner January 10, 1978353Appendix III.The Hope Speech Keynote Address to Gay Caucus of California Democratic Council (San Diego) March 10, 1978359Appendix IV.That's What America Is Speech at Gay Freedom Day Rally June 25, 1978364Appendix V.Harvey Milk's Political Will Tape-recorded November 18, 1977372Notes on Sources376Index381
\ From the Publisher“A no-holds-barred character study and a history of the local gay movement . . . An investigative piece on the mechanics of big-city government in all its expedient, back-biting splendor.” —The Washington Post\ “A remarkable work [of] biography, social history, and political machination . . . Exceptional.” —The Los Angeles Times\ \ \
