1993 - Conduct Unbecoming (Hardcover) → Paperback ISBN-13: 9780312092610 ISBN-10: 031209261X Genres: History, Nonfiction, LGBTQ+ Books 10 |
I read Hawaii by James Michener. That gave me the concept for the book, the idea of taking people and using them as vehicles, symbols for different ideas. I would take the life-and-times approach and tell the whole story of the gay movement in this way, using Harvey as the major vehicle.
I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.
HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character.Despite being effectively homebound and on oxygen, he was able to attend the Los Angeles screening of the HBO film version of And the Band Played On in August 1993.
Perhaps because Shilts remains controversial among some gays, there is no monument to him. Nor is there a street named for him, as there are for other San Francisco writers such as Jack Kerouac and Dashiell Hammett. . . . Shilts' only monument is his work. He remains the most prescient chronicler of 20th century American gay history.
1993 - Conduct Unbecoming (Hardcover) → Paperback ISBN-13: 9780312092610 ISBN-10: 031209261X Genres: History, Nonfiction, LGBTQ+ Books
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