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Morris, Charles

  Morrison, Jack

  Moscone, George

  assassination of

  autopsy of

  burial of

  California Senate resolution honoring

  death threats against

  FBI investigation of

  memorial services for

  1976 assembly race and

  White’s reappointment and

  Moscone, Gina

  Most Holy Redeemer Parish

  See also Castro Street neighborhood

  Mulcahy, Eileen

  Murphy, Cornelius

  Murphy, Reg

  Nardoza, Peter

  National Gay Task Force

  Navy, U.S.

  Newman, Paul

  New West magazine

  New York City, Milk in

  New York State College for Teachers at Albany

  New York Times Magazine, The

  Nichols, Rick

  Nicoletta, Danny

  Noble, Elaine

  Norman, Tom

  Nothenberg, Rudy

  O’Connor, Capt. William

  Officers for Justice (OFJ)

  O’Horgan, Tom

  Oklahoma, anti-gay legislation in

  Orange County

  Orange Tuesday

  Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore

  Pabich, Dick

  Paperback Traffic

  Payne, Medora

  Peg’s Place brawl

  Pendulum

  Peoples Temple

  Performing Artists for Milk

  Peron, Dennis

  Perry, Chris

  Pier 39 project

  Police (Police Department)

  Gain as chief of

  gay cops in

  riot after White verdict and

  after White’s assassination of Milk and Moscone

  Police brutality and harassment

  Police Commission

  Police Officers’ Association (POA)

  Presidio military base

  Press, the

  See also Media

  Price, Leontyne

  Proposition 6, See Briggs Initiative

  Proposition 7

  Quinn, Sally

  Radicals

  Randol, Tom

  Reagan, Ronald

  Real estate developers

  Real estate speculators

  Reed, Lou

  Riis Park

  Riot after White verdict

  Rivaldo, Jim

  Robinson, Frank

  Rodwell, Craig

  Rosman, Howard

  Ross, Bob

  Ryan, Leo

  Ryckman, John

  St. Claire, Bob

  St. James, Margo

  St. Paul, Minnesota

  San Diego

  San Francisco

  history of gays in

  as “Kook Capital,”

  Milk’s 1969 stay in

  Milk’s 1972 move to

  1978 demonstrations in

  See also Elections; and specific neighborhoods

  San Francisco Chamber of Commerce

  San Francisco Chronicle

  San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs Association

  San Francisco Examiner

  San Francisco Gay Democratic Club (later Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club)

  San Francisco Labor Council

  San Francisco Progress

  San Francisco Tomorrow

  San Francisco Young Democrats

  Sarria, Jose

  “Saturday Night Live,”

  Save Our Children (From Homosexuality), Inc.

  Save Our Human Rights

  Sayão, Bidú

  Schmidt, Doug

  Scott, David

  Seattle, Washington

  Seely, Dennis

  Seniora, Alfred

  Silver, Carol Ruth

  Silvistri, Doris

  Simmons, Warren

  Sipple, Oliver (Bill)

  Smith, Arlo

  Smith, (Joseph) Scott

  Smith, Stan

  Society for Individual Rights (SIR)

  Spear, Allan

  “Statement of Conscience,”

  Stephens, Boyd

  Stoen, Tim

  Stokes, Rick

  Stonewall Bar, raid on (1969)

  Streisand, Barbra

  Suicide

  Al Asmussen’s

  Joe Campbell’s attempt

  gays and

  Jack Lira’s

  Jack McKinley and

  Harvey Milk’s views on

  Peoples Temple

  Craig Rodwell’s attempt

  Summa Corporation

  Supreme Court, U.S.

  Tango, Mildred

  Tatum, Donn

  Tay-Bush Inn

  Taylor, Barbara

  Taylor, Jerry

  Teamsters

  Time magazine

  Toad Hall bar

  Tunney, John

  Turner, Joe

  Tuttle, Bob

  Union Labor Party

  Unions

  1975 elections and

  See also specific unions

  United Fund Against the Briggs Initiative

  Vel, Frank

  Veterans for Milk Committee

  Vice squad

  Wahl, John

  Washington, gay march on

  Washington Star

  Wax, Mel

  Weather Underground

  Weiss, Mike

  White, Dan

  assassination of Moscone and Milk by

  confession of

  gay rights law and

  manslaughter verdict for

  Pier 39 project and

  psychiatric center issue and

  reactions to verdict against

  reappointment issue and

  resignation of

  trial of

  verdicts against

  White, Mary Ann

  Wichita, Kansas

  Wiegardt, Billy

  Wilde, Oscar

  Wong, Michael

  Woodward, Joanne

  Woolden, Russ

  World War II

  Zane, Martland

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  Conduct Unbecoming

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  The Death of Donna-May Dean by Joey Manley

  Sudden Strangers by Aaron Fricke and Walter Fricke

  Profiles in Gay & Lesbian Courage by Reverend Troy D. Perry and Thomas L.P. Swicegood

  Latin Moon in Manhattan by Jaime Manrique

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  Copyright © 1982 by Randy Shilts

  For information, write: St. Martin’s Press,

  175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Shilts, Randy.

  The Mayor of Castro Street : the life and times of Harvey Milk / by Randy Shilts.

  p. cm.

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 0-312-01900-9 (pbk.)

  1. Milk, Harvey. 2. Gay liberation movement—California—San Francisco. 3. Politicians—California—San Francisco—Biography. 4. San Francisco (Calif.)—Politics and government. 5. San Francisco (Calif.)—Biography. 1. Title.

  88-1836

  F869.S353M547 1988 979.4'61053'0924—dc19 [B]

  CIP

  The speeches of Harvey Milk are printed in full with the permission of the Estate of Harvey Milk, copyright © 1978 by Estate of Harvey Milk, all rights reserved.

  Lyrics from “The Rock Will Wear Away.” Lyrics and music by Meg Christian and Holly Near, used with permission, copyright © 1976 by Thumbelina Music (BMI) and Herford Music (ASCAP). Thanks to Olivia Records.

  Research for this book has previously appeared in New West, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Criminal Justice Publications, National Public Radio, KSAN-FM news, KTVU-TV’s “Ten O’Clock News” and KQED-TV’s “Newsroom,” “A Closer Look,” and “Evening Edition” programs.

  The book is an expansion of “The Life and Death of Harvey Milk,” first published in Christopher Street magazine in March 1979.

  eISBN 9781466829671

  First eBook edition: September 2012