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	Randy Shilts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Randy Shilts (August 8, 1951 – February 17, 1994) was a gay American journalist and author.
		By the time Shilts' book was published it was already clear that the time between infection and the appearance of the disease was rarely less than two years, and on the average eight to ten years.
		Gaetan Dugas the "Patient Zero" as presented by Shilts in his book was accepted as fact, and it raised a firestorm of homophobia on top of that which already existed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Randy_Shilts (607 words)

	Randy Shilts: Conduct Unbecoming?
		Randy Shilts was nothing if not opinionated and many people in the community--particularly activists--felt that he grossly misrepresented such issues as AIDS activism and the closing of the San Francisco bathhouses in And the Band Played On.
		Shilts was also an outspoken critic of most of the gay press which he felt was too parochial, too concerned with "agenda" rather than reporting, and he hated being called a "gay reporter"--considering himself a reporter who happened to be gay.
		Randy Shilts understood that he lived in a world that would not take him seriously as a journalist if he was too partial to the gay press or showed too many signs of "non-objective" writing.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/may94bronski.htm (1532 words)

	Randy Shilts
		Thus, Shilts follows the growth of the Castro as a gay neighborhood and the growth of San Francisco's gay community from a ragtag collection of people who socialized and sexualized together into a vibrant and political force.
		Shilts, who learned he was infected with HIV in 1987, died of AIDS, according to a statement released by the San Francisco Chronicle, where Shilts worked as a national correspondent.
		The criticism that Randy Shilts faced from within the community--including flack from many PWAS for keeping his HIV-status hidden for years--raises basic questions about the responsibility of reporters who are gay and who cover issues of concern for the gay community be in the mainstream as well as the gay press.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/s/shilts_randy.htm (1300 words)

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		Shilts was born August 8, 1951, in Davenport, Iowa.
		Shilts was there to watch and record both the unification of the gay community and the trauma it experienced when Milk and Mascone were assassinated in November 1978.
		Shilts has spoken of the pressure on him to write only good things about the gay community, and he was sharply criticized for pointing out that the AIDS virus didn’t spread by itself.
	www.cateweb.org /CA_Authors/shilts.htm (879 words)

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		Shilts, 42, was a native of Aurora, Ill. and a graduate of the University of Oregon School of Journalism.
		Shilts began work as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1981 just as cases of a rare pneumonia and skin cancer were detected in a handful of gay men in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.
		Shilts is a frequent and popular lecturer at universities, professional association gatherings, and national health organization conferences.
	www.qrd.org /qrd/aids/obits/1994/randy.shilts.obituary.SFChron-02.18.94 (881 words)

	AEGiS-LT: Randy Shilts, Chronicler of AIDS Epidemic, Dies at 42; Journalism: Author of 'And the Band Played On' is ...
		Randy Shilts, Chronicler of AIDS Epidemic, Dies at 42; Journalism: Author of 'And the Band Played On' is credited with awakening nation to the health crisis.
		Shilts was hurt by such barbs, but refused to alter his message or obscure the truth to win friends.
		Randy Martin Shilts was born Aug. 8, 1951, in Davenport, Iowa, but spent most of his youth in the Chicago suburb of Aurora.
	www.aegis.com /news/lt/1994/lt940208.html (1462 words)

	JeffCohen.org Media Beat Million Man March
		Media retrospectives hailed Shilts as an openly gay reporter who broke new ground after joining the staff of a large daily newspaper in 1981.
		But such media reports on the life and death of Randy Shilts routinely omitted his sharp criticisms of mainstream journalism - for shoddy coverage of AIDS, and for tacit acceptance of anti-gay attitudes.
		Although large numbers of gays have always been in the U.S. armed forces (their persecution is chronicled in Shilts' 1993 book "Conduct Unbecoming"), the possibility that they would no longer be forced to stay in the closet sent homophobes into a protracted frenzy.
	www.jeffcohen.org /docs/mbeat19940223.html (745 words)

	Randy Shilts was gutsy, brash and unforgettable. He died 10 years ago, fighting for the rights of gays in American ...
		Shilts was one of those exceptional individuals who managed to turn being a scorned and hated minority to an advantage.
		Randy Shilts was the third of six boys born to Bud and Norma Shilts, of Aurora, Ill. His mother was an alcoholic, and he had "a childhood in which I was beaten and emotionally abused," he later wrote.
		Randy Shilts went to his grave still trying to make amends: the first bequest in his will was to David.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/17/DDGGH50UAU1.DTL (1949 words)

	NLGJA \| LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame \| Randy Shilts
		The name Randy Shilts is inextricably linked with the modern AIDS epidemic.
		Randy’s final book, “Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military,” exposed anti-gay attitudes and policies in the armed forces.
		Randy had hoped to see the ban on gays in the military lifted.
	www.nlgja.org /halloffame/randy_shilts.html (230 words)

	Writer Randy Shilts Dies; Chronicled Rise of AIDS
		Washington Post (02/18/94) P. B7 (Smith, J. Randy Shilts, a journalist covering AIDS for the San Francisco Chronicle and author of a best-selling book on the disease, died of AIDS on Feb. 17 at the age of 42.
		Shilts was one of the first openly gay reporters to work for a mainstream newspaper.
		Shilts also announced last year that he had been infected with HIV in 1987.
	www.aegis.com /news/ads/1994/ad940301.html (477 words)

	History News Network
		SHILTS, Randy Martin (8 August 1951-17 February 1994), journalist, was born in Davenport, Iowa, the son of Bud and Norma Shilts.
		Young Randy Shilts grew up in Aurora, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, where he organized a local chapter of Young Americans for Freedom and graduated from a public high school.
		Randy Shilts published no autobiographical work, but his papers are in the Gay and Lesbian Archives at the San Francisco Public Library.
	hnn.us /blogs/entries/18320.html (1306 words)

	UO School of Journalism and Communication
		Shilts was a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and an acclaimed author.
		Shilts was distinguished in the area of AIDS reporting and was also a prize-winning author of two books: the New York Times bestseller Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the Military and And the Band Played On; People, Politics and the AIDS Epicdemic, which was made into an Emmy Award-winning HBO movie.
		Shilts was awarded the UO Alumni Association's Distinguished Young Alumnus Award in 1993 and inducted into the School's Hall of Achievement in 1998.
	jcomm.uoregon.edu /alum/donors/shilts.php (143 words)

	BookRags: Randy Shilts Biography
		Although he had only written three books when he died in 1994 at age forty- two, Randy Shilts had already helped "set the standard" by which gay journalism is judged, according to Robert B. Marks Ridinger in Gay and Lesbian Literature.
		When Shilts joined the reporting staff of the San Francisco Chronicle in 1981, he was the first openly gay journalist at a major American daily newspaper.
		Over the next thirteen years, Shilts reported on the spread of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)--the disease that killed him--with a tenacity that won respect from friends and foes alike.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/randy-shilts-aya (212 words)

	Amazon.com: Conduct Unbecoming: Books: Randy Shilts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Shilts spoke with hundreds of lesbian and gays in all levels of the military and tells their stories of pain and pride with an attention to detail and depth of feeling that will leave readers moved and educated and with better understanding.
		Shilt's book is full of stories that sound more at home in a KGB-interrogation room than in the 'land of the free': threats and manipulation, internal surveillance and spying, coercion for confession and incrimination.
		Additionally, Randy Shilts does an excellent job of incorporating the history of women in the military and the prejudice's they continue to face in a "manly, macho" society.
	www.amazon.com /Conduct-Unbecoming-Randy-Shilts/dp/0449909174 (2488 words)

	Amazon.ca: And the Band Played on : Politics, People, and the Aids Epidemic: Books: Randy Shilts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Shilts was an extreme left wing homosexual activist who was infected with AIDS and had a corresponding political agenda to promote.
		Shilts discovered he himself was HIV positive after he finished the book; he had asked his doctor not to reveal the test results to him until then.
		Shilts writes like a dying man with nothing to lose, which is refreshing.
	www.amazon.ca /Band-Played-Politics-People-Epidemic/dp/0312241356 (1867 words)

	Amazon.com: And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic: Books: Randy Shilts,William Greider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Randy Shilts masterpiece, "And The Band Played On", reads like a detective story; from the discovery of an unusual new organism that was killing a few people slowly and inexorably in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and multiplied exponentially underground until it exploded into the number one health catastrophe on the planet.
		Randy Shilts did an excellent job of showing the culture in the United States and France and the politics in the medical and scientific communities and the political posture and arena during the 1980s.
		Shilts, who tested positive during the research for his book, but said he didn't ask for the results until his writing was finished, nonetheless brings an emotional bias to his research.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312241356?v=glance (2545 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Shilts, Randy
		Randy Shilts pioneered as an openly gay journalist, working in both the newly emerging gay press of the 1970s and then as a reporter assigned to cover the gay and lesbian community of San Francisco for mainstream newspapers and television stations.
		Shilts tells the story of how San Francisco became the vortex of the national gay rights movement and how Milk came to personify the aspirations of a diverse constituency.
		In And the Band Played on: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987), Shilts tells the always fascinating, frequently depressing, and sometimes exhilarating story of the emergence of the disease that decimated gay communities throughout the country as it spread almost unchecked for the first five years after its appearance.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/shilts_r.html (752 words)

	Randy Shilts Talks Tough as next to last book is released (1987)
		Today is February 17, 2004, the tenth anniversary of Randy Shilts' death (from AIDS).
		That knowledge is not lost on San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts, whose recently reissued blockbuster bestseller And the Band Played On [Penguin; $12.95/softcover] chronicles the devastating impact of the AIDS health crisis on the gay community.
		Shilts' perception circa 1987 was that it would compromise his ability to function as a professional and openly gay news journalist, if he was perceived as living with HIV/AIDS).
	www.axiongrafix.com /shilts.html (3223 words)

	Equality Forum
		Randy Shilts was the first newspaper reporter to cover the gay community full time.
		Prior to the San Francisco Chronicle, Shilts worked as a correspondent for The Advocate.
		In 1993, Shilts won the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.
	www.equalityforum.com /2005/40-shilts.cfm (123 words)

	"Conduct Unbecoming" by Randy Shilts
		To be allowed to exist in an environment where you are encouraged to be all that you can be - as long as you don't tell anyone about it, and as long as you don't act on your convictions - is psychological torture, and absurd government policy.
		ApolloMedia based on Randy Shilts' book about gays and lesbians in the military, highlights the inconsistencies inherent in this policy, and paints a picture that both disturbs and enlightens.
		These excerpts are presented here with hypertext links to queer net.resources, to serve both as a vote for more enlightened government policy, and as a testament to the courage of gays and lesbians who have served, fought, and died for this country - and who now suffer unjustly under its leadership.
	www.xq.com /apollomedia/conduct.html (917 words)

	NPR : Journalist RANDY SHILTS
		His Book, "And the Band Played On," was one of the earliest books written about the AIDS epidemic and it's impact on the gay community.
		SHILTS' new book is about gay life in the military, "Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military, Vietnam to the Persian Gulf." (St. Martin's Press).
		SHILTS started the book in 1988, before the current debate about gays in the military.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1106884 (157 words)

	Randy Shilts warned early about 'baffling diseases' in gay men
		Randy Shilts warned early about 'baffling diseases' in gay men
		Randy Shilts wrote the article reprinted below for the May 13, 1982 edition of The Chronicle.
		Some of the ideas about AIDS may seem infuriating and ignorant to us more than two decades later, but this was the beginning of the war on AIDS, and Shilts was one of the first war correspondents.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/17/DDGVB5133M1.DTL (1247 words)

	vdh-randy'squilt
		Above is the patch that friends made in honor of Randy Shilts, the author of And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic among many others.
		Today there are over 41,000 individual patches that travel around the world in sections for public viewing in efforts to raise money for research and treatment.
		Randy Shilts left his mark within the San Francisco gay community and the literary community and will continue to live on just as
	www.lehigh.edu /~ineng/vdh/vdh-randysquilt.html (219 words)

	And the Band Played on : Politics, Peopl… by Randy Shilts \| LibraryThing
		Conduct Unbecoming : Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military : Vietnam to the Persian Gulf by Randy Shilts 26/47
		Shilts is a phenominal author, and this treatment is detailed and immaculate.
		Shilts is just a man, but you feel as though you can see the crisis as God must have seen it from above, watching the courage of some and the despicable self-interest of others.
	www.librarything.com /catalog.php?book=1277113 (872 words)

	NLGJA \| LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame \| Randy Shilts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Randy Shilts was inducted into the LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame on September 24, 2005 during NLGJA's 15th Anniversary Gala Dinner, Awards and Hall of Fame Ceremony in Chicago.
		Click here to return to the main Randy Shilts page.
		Presenter Alan Flippen inducts Randy Shilts into the LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame, recognizing him as one of the foremost chroniclers of America's HIV/AIDS epidemic.
	www.nlgja.org /halloffame/randy_shilts_photos.html (78 words)

	The Origin of HIV and the First Cases of AIDS
		A journalist, Randy Shilts, subsequently wrote an article based on Darrow's findings, which named Patient Zero as a gay Canadian flight attendant called Gaetan Dugas.
		For several years, Dugas was vilified as a 'mass spreader' of HIV and the original source of the HIV epidemic among gay men.
		However, four years after the publication of Shilts' article, Dr. Darrow repudiated his study, admitting its methods were flawed and that Shilts' had misrepresented its conclusions.
	www.avert.org /origins.htm (3707 words)

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