The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts

The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts'If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door' This is the definitive biography of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and cold blooded assassination mirrored the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in 1970s America. Milk was the first openly gay politian to hold public office in the United States. He moved to San Francisco in 1972 amid a migration of gay men to the city's Castro

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'I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art' Lynn Barber

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