Randy Shilts

Quick Facts

Full Name	Randy Shilts
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Aug 8, 1951(1951-08-08)
Age	73
Date Of Death	1994-02-17
Birthplace	Davenport
Country	United States
Birth City	Iowa
Horoscope	Leo

Randy Shilts Biography

Randy Shilts is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on August 8, 1951 in Davenport, Iowa, United States. His position was used to report on the AIDS epidemic.

Anjelica Hutton and Richard Gere and Anjelica Huston were two of the many big names who starred in the HBO film And the Band Played On. were just two of the big stars who appeared in the HBO movie And the Band Played on.

Randy Shilts (August 8, 1951 – February 17, 1994) was an American journalist and author. After studying journalism at the University of Oregon, he 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 early 1980s, he was noted for being the first openly-gay reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. His first book The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk was a biography of LGBT activist Harvey Milk.

Shilts died, aged 42, at his 10-acre (4 ha) ranch in Guerneville, Sonoma County, California, being survived by his partner, Barry Barbieri, his mother, and his brothers. His brother Gary had conducted a commitment service for the couple the previous year. After a funeral service at Glide Memorial Church, Shilts was buried at Redwood Memorial Gardens in Guerneville alongside his long time friend, Daniel R. Yoder (1952-1995).

He was one of six siblings in a conservative working-class family.

Randy Shilts Net Worth

Randy Shilts is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Randy Shilts 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

At 19 years old, he came out as gay and founded the Gay People’s Alliance.

His book, And the Band played On, exposed the ignorance of many groups regarding the AIDS crisis and was made into a HBO documentary.

Born August 8, 1951, in Davenport, Iowa, Shilts grew up in Aurora, Illinois, with five brothers in a conservative, working-class family. He majored in journalism at the University of Oregon, where he worked on the student newspaper, the Oregon Daily Emerald, as managing editor. While an undergraduate he came out publicly as gay, and ran for student office with the slogan “Come out for Shilts.”

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His 1987 book And the Band Played On chronicled the history of the AIDS epidemic. Despite some controversy surrounding the book in the LGBT community, Shilts was praised for his meticulous documentation of an epidemic that was little-understood at the time. It was later made into an HBO film of the same name in 1993. His final book, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, which examined discrimination against lesbians and gays in the military, was published in 1993.

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Randy Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Randy Shilts celebrates birthday on August 8 of every year.

In 1992, Shilts came down with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and suffered a collapsed lung; the following year, he came down with Kaposi’s sarcoma. In a New York Times interview in the spring of 1993, Shilts observed, “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.

Is Randy Shilts still alive?

February 17, 1994

What happened to Randy Shilts?

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 had a home in San Francisco. The cause was AIDS, said Linda Alband, his assistant.

Who was Patient Zero in And the Band Played On?

Gaëtan Dugas
Nationality| Canadian
Occupation| Flight attendant
Known for| Long misdescribed as “Patient Zero” of the North American AIDS epidemic

Who wrote And the Band Played On?

Randy Shilts

What social and medical issues is the movie the band played on addressing?

This is the story of the first years of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and focuses on three key elements. Dr. Don Francis, an immunologist with experience in eradicating smallpox and containing the Ebola virus , joins the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to try and understand just what this disease is.