Milk's life wasthesubjectofRandy Shilts' 1982 biography, "the Mayor of Castro Street," andthe 1984 documentary "the Times of Harvey Milk," which wonanAcademy Award.
In And the Band Played On, journalist RandyShilts reported the difficult work of teasing out the origins of the AIDS pandemic, including the sociopolitical challenges of telling a despised minority that some of their behaviors were risky.