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Randy Shilts. Randy Shilts (August 8, 1951 – February 17, 1994) was an American journalist and author. After studying journalism at the University of Oregon, Shilts began working as a reporter for both The Advocate and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as for San Francisco Bay Area television stations. In the 1980s, he was noted for being ...
Jun 3, 2021 · Randy Martin Shilts was born in Davenport, Iowa, on August 8, 1951. Shilts was the third of six sons born to Bud and Norma Shilts. He was raised in a politically conservative and religious ...
Feb 17, 2004 · 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.
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a 1987 book by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts.The book chronicles the discovery and spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) with a special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then ...
- Randy Shilts, Matthew Modine
- 1987
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Feb 18, 1994 · Randy Shilts, the author of best-selling books on AIDS and gay issues and a newspaper reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle, died yesterday at his home in Guerneville, Calif. He was 42 and also ...
Feb 18, 1994 · Randy Shilts, a tenacious, award-winning journalist who became the nation's foremost chronicler of gay life and the AIDS epidemic, died early Thursday at his ranch in the Sonoma County redwoods.
Dec 14, 2023 · Randy Shilts, center, in an Oregon Daily Emerald staff photo from 1974. Before Randy Shilts became a leading voice in the AIDS epidemic, he was a student reporter at the University of Oregon, trying to launch a career as an openly gay man in the ‘70s. Next year marks the 30th anniversary of his death. It was 1974, and the student-run newsroom ...
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