RANDY SHILTS

Randy Stilts – Activist who ran for University of Oregon President and was the chairperson of the Incidental Fees Committee [1973] He majored in journalism at the University of Oregon, where he worked on the student newspaper, the Oregon Daily Emerald, as managing editor. During his college days, he came out publicly as an undergraduate,[1] and ran for student office with the slogan "Come out for Shilts. Shilts wrote three books. His first book, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, is a biography of openly gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, who was assassinated by a political rival, Dan White, in 1978. The book broke new ground, being written at a time when "the very idea of a gay political biography was brand-new."

Shilts's second book, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, published in 1987, won the Stonewall Book Award and would sell over 700,000 copies until 2004. the Band Played On is an extensively researched account of the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the United States. The book was translated into seven languages,[4] and was later made into an HBO film of the same name in 1993, with many big-name actors in starring or supporting roles, including Matthew Modine, Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Phil Collins, Lily Tomlin, Ian McKellen, Steve Martin, and Alan Alda, among others. The film earned twenty nominations and nine awards, including the 1994 Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie.

His last book, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, which examined discrimination against lesbians and gays in the military, was published in 1993. Shilts and his assistants conducted over a thousand interviews while researching the book, the last chapter of which Shilts dictated from his hospital bed. Randy Shilts - Wikipedia

2003 Chuck Palahniuk mentioned Randy in his book Fugitives and Refugees on page 37 Quests: Adventures to Hunt Down In 1974, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Randy Shilts was a student at the University of Oregon when he won the national William Randolph Hearst Award for a newspaper article he’d written about the court. [Imperial Rose Court of Portland].

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RANDY SHILTS PAPERS 1955-1994 Collection number: GLC 43 The James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center

Below articles both from The Fountain Newspaper, LEFT May 1973; RIGHT July 1973.

ABOVE LEFT February 1977 from the newspaper, Northwest Gay Review, ABOVE RIGHT June 1982 from Cascade Voice newspaper.

BELOW LEFT City Week newspaper, November 6, 1987. BELOW RIGHT City Week newspaper, December 28, 1987. LOWER BELOW RIGHT, Alternative Connection newspaper, March 1993.

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