WHEN THE BAND PLAYED ON: The Life of Randy Shilts, America's Trailblazing Gay Journalist

Shilts was the preeminent LGBTQ+ reporter of his generation and writer of three seminal works on the community: The Mayor of Castro Street, And the Band Played On, and Conduct Unbecoming. This account chronicles a young man whose coming of age became intricately linked to the historic peaks and devastating perils of modern gay liberation. Photos.