25 Most Influential Gay Authors You Should Know About - Disver Walks Blog

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• 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
• ARNIE KANTROWZ, PNEER OF GAY LIBERATN, DI AT 81
• FRANK KAMENY’S ORRLY, SQUARE GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISM
• A WAR OF LOV: THE UNEXPECTED STORY OF A GAY ACTIVIST DISVERG J PAPERBACK – NOVEMBER 13, 2018
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HIS WRG FOCED ON LGBT ISSU, CLUDG THE STGGLE FOR GAY RIGHTS. HE WAS THE THOR OF AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: POLICS, PEOPLE AND THE AIDS EPIMIC (1987), A BTSELLER ABOUT THE START OF AMERI'S AIDS EPIMIC. THE BOOK MA SHILTS A TSTED MENTATOR ON AIDS, TO THE POT THAT HE WAS THE CLOSG SPEAKER AT 1989'S FIFTH INTERNATNAL AIDS CONFERENCE MONTREAL. SHILTS ALSO WROTE THE MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET: THE LIFE AND TIM OF HARVEY MILK (1982) AND THE BTSELLG CONDUCT UNBEG: LBIANS AND GAYS THE U.S. MILARY, VIETNAM TO THE PERSIAN GULF (1993).EARLY LIFE AND EDUTNRANDY MART SHILTS WAS BORN DAVENPORT, IOWA, ON AUGT 8, 1951. SHILTS WAS THE THIRD OF SIX SONS BORN TO BUD AND NORMA SHILTS. HE WAS RAISED A POLILLY NSERVATIVE AND RELIG ENVIRONMENT AURORA, ILLOIS. SHILTS' MOTHER WAS AN ALHOLIC WHO ULD BE PHYSILLY AND EMOTNALLY ABIVE.WHEN ME TIME FOR LLEGE, SHILTS MOVED TO OREGON, WHERE HE ATTEND PORTLAND COMMUNY COLLEGE AND THE UNIVERSY OF OREGON. WHILE SCHOOL HE ME OUT OF THE CLOSET. HE EDED THE STUNT PAPER AT THE UNIVERSY OF OREGON AND GRADUATED WH A JOURNALISM GREE 1975.JOURNALISM CAREERSHILTS NTUED TO BE OPEN ABOUT HIS SEXUALY WHILE PURSUG A REPORTG REER, WHICH MA DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO FD WORK. EVENTUALLY, HE LAND A JOB AT THE ADVOTE, A GAY AND LBIAN PUBLITN. HE FIRST WORKED OREGON, THEN SAN FRANCIS, REMAG AT THE ADVOTE UNTIL 1978. IN SAN FRANCIS, HE ALSO SERVED AS A NTRIBUTOR AT A PUBLIC TELEVISN AND AN PENNT TV STATN UNTIL 1980.WHEN SHILTS JOED THE SAN FRANCIS CHRONICLE 1981 HE WAS THE PUBLITN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JOURNALIST. HE HAD BEEN HIRED TO VER ISSU THE GAY MUNY, THOUGH HE ALSO REPORTED OTHER STORI. AS PART OF HIS BEAT, HE WROTE ABOUT THE GROWG NUMBER OF IMMUNE SYSTEM-RELATED DISEAS OCCURRG GAY MEN SAN FRANCIS. SHILTS GRASPED THE SIGNIFINCE OF THE VELOPG STORY AND NVCED THE PAPER TO LET HIM REPORT ON FULL-TIME.IN HIS WRG, SHILTS EVENTUALLY PHED FOR BATHHOE CLOSUR TO STEM THE SPREAD OF AIDS. THIS STANCE ALIENATED HIM OM THOSE THE GAY MUNY WHO RISTED LIMS ON SEXUAL EEDOMS. SOME DUBBED SHILTS A "GAY UNCLE TOM." IN 1984, SHILTS EXPLAED, "GAY ACTIVISTS MAY BE ABLE TO BULLSH SOME REPORTER OM THE LOS ANGEL TIM BY TELLG HIM THAT THE BATHS DON'T PLAY ANY ROLE THE AIDS EPIMIC, BUT THEY N'T BULLSH ME, BEE I KNOW WHAT GO ON THE BATHHO. I ED TO GO THERE MYSELF."BOOKSFOLLOWG THE 1978 ASSASSATN OF HARVEY MILK, ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY POLICIANS TO W PUBLIC OFFICE, SHILTS WROTE THE MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET: THE LIFE AND TIM OF HARVEY MILK (1982). THE BOOK WAS A BGRAPHY OF MILK, WH WHOM SHILTS HAD BEEN IENDLY, THAT ALSO VERED THE GROWG POLIL POWER OF THE LGBT MUNY SAN FRANCIS.SHILTS' NEXT BOOK WAS AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: POLICS, PEOPLE AND THE AIDS EPIMIC (1987). IN HE ADDRSED THE BEGNG OF AMERI'S AIDS EPIMIC, THE IMPACT ON THE GAY MUNY AND THE DIFFERENT ERNMENT RPONSE. AND THE BAND PLAYED ON BEME A BTSELLER AND WAS ADAPTED TO A TV MOVIE THAT AIRED 1993. THE BOOK HAS BEEN CRICIZED FOR S PICTN OF GAETAN DUGAS, A CANADIAN FLIGHT ATTENDANT, AS "PATIENT ZERO." DUGAS WAS ASSOCIATED WH A CLTER OF AIDS S LOS ANGEL BUT DID NOT TRODUCE HIV TO NORTH AMERI OR E S SPREAD THE UNED STAT.IN HIS FAL BOOK, CONDUCT UNBEG: LBIANS AND GAYS THE U.S. MILARY, VIETNAM TO THE PERSIAN GULF (1993), SHILTS LVED TO THE DISCRIMATN AND PERSECUTN FACED BY LBIANS AND GAYS TRYG TO SERVE THE U.S. ARY. HE WAS SPIRED TO TACKLE THE TOPIC BEE HE FELT, "THE ARY ISSUE IS A WAY OF SHOWG THE EXTENT TO WHICH PREJUDICE SHAP THE LIV OF GAY PEOPLE." WHILE WRG THE BOOK, HE VELOPED AIDS. SHILTS FISHED CONDUCT UNBEG WHILE THE HOSPAL WH A LLAPSED LUNG.CONDUCT UNBEG NTAED ANONYMO PICTNS OF CLOSETED FOUR-STAR GENERALS, RULTG CRICISM OF SHILTS FOR NOT OUTG THEM. HE BELIEVED THAT INTIFYG PUBLIC FIGUR AS GAY WHOUT THEIR NSENT WAS WRONG.SHILTS TEND FOR HIS NEXT BOOK'S TOPIC TO BE HOMOSEXUALY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.BGRAPHYA BGRAPHY OF SHILTS TLED THE JOURNALIST OF CASTRO STREET: THE LIFE OF RANDY SHILTS WAS PUBLISHED 2019.HIV AND AIDSSHILTS RECEIVED AN HIV-POSIVE DIAGNOSIS MARCH 1987. HE'D ASKED HIS DOCTOR TO WA UNTIL AND THE BAND PLAYED ON WAS FISHED TO GIVE HIM THE NEWS, AS HE DID NOT WANT HIS OWN HEALTH STAT TO AFFECT HIS WRG. THOUGH IALLY DNTED BY THE DIAGNOSIS, SHILTS SOON STARTED HIS NEXT BOOK, CONDUCT UNBEG.IN 1992, SHILTS' ILLNS TURNED TO AIDS. HE VELOPED PNMONIA AND KAPOSI'S SARA, A NCER THAT OCCURRED DUE TO HIS WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEM. HOWEVER, SHILTS DID NOT PUBLICLY SHARE HIS DIAGNOSIS UNTIL 1993. HE EXPLAED, "EVERY GAY WRER WHO TTS POSIVE ENDS UP BEG AN AIDS ACTIVIST, AND I DON'T WANT TO END UP BEG AN ACTIVIST. I WANTED TO KEEP ON BEG A REPORTER."PERSONAL LIFEIN HIS ADULT LIFE SHILTS BATTLED ALHOL AND DG ADDICTN. ON MEMORIAL DAY 1993, SHILTS HELD A CIVIL MMENT CEREMONY WH PARTNER BARRY BARBIERI.DEATHSHILTS DIED AT THE AGE OF 42 GUERNEVILLE, CALIFORNIA, ON FEBARY 17, 1994. THE E OF ATH WAS AIDS. THE WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH PICKETED HIS {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Kramer -found the advocy groups GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power), which ed the inic SILENCE = DEATH logo that beme a symbol for the AIDS crisis. His ntributns to the LGBTQ muny boil down to the impact he ma as a pneer drag, and how “Drag Race” drastilly changed the way lns of Amerins view — and appreciate — a key facet of gay culture. Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement the US and, as legend has , threw the brick that igned the famo Stonewall rts, which were the talyst for the movement and have spired many Pri march ever 1992, Johnson’s body was found the Hudson River.

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ARNIE KANTROWZ, PNEER OF GAY LIBERATN, DI AT 81

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FRANK KAMENY’S ORRLY, SQUARE GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISM

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A WAR OF LOV: THE UNEXPECTED STORY OF A GAY ACTIVIST DISVERG J PAPERBACK – NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Marriage equaly and the loss of his iends were several topics Sullivan discsed durg a vis to Cal State Northridge’s USU Grand Salon on Thursday, as he shared wh guts how he beme a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) activist. 9, 2022Arnie Kantrowz, a lerature profsor and thor who was an early champn of gay rights and an fatigable mpaigner for fairer treatment of gay people by the media, died on Jan. Mass, gay rights movement was igned mid-1969 by the uprisg provoked by a police raid on the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, which led to the foundg several months later of the Gay Activists Alliance.

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HIS WRG FOCED ON LGBT ISSU, CLUDG THE STGGLE FOR GAY RIGHTS. HE WAS THE THOR OF AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: POLICS, PEOPLE AND THE AIDS EPIMIC (1987), A BTSELLER ABOUT THE START OF AMERI'S AIDS EPIMIC. THE BOOK MA SHILTS A TSTED MENTATOR ON AIDS, TO THE POT THAT HE WAS THE CLOSG SPEAKER AT 1989'S FIFTH INTERNATNAL AIDS CONFERENCE MONTREAL. SHILTS ALSO WROTE THE MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET: THE LIFE AND TIM OF HARVEY MILK (1982) AND THE BTSELLG CONDUCT UNBEG: LBIANS AND GAYS THE U.S. MILARY, VIETNAM TO THE PERSIAN GULF (1993).EARLY LIFE AND EDUTNRANDY MART SHILTS WAS BORN DAVENPORT, IOWA, ON AUGT 8, 1951. SHILTS WAS THE THIRD OF SIX SONS BORN TO BUD AND NORMA SHILTS. HE WAS RAISED A POLILLY NSERVATIVE AND RELIG ENVIRONMENT AURORA, ILLOIS. SHILTS' MOTHER WAS AN ALHOLIC WHO ULD BE PHYSILLY AND EMOTNALLY ABIVE.WHEN ME TIME FOR LLEGE, SHILTS MOVED TO OREGON, WHERE HE ATTEND PORTLAND COMMUNY COLLEGE AND THE UNIVERSY OF OREGON. WHILE SCHOOL HE ME OUT OF THE CLOSET. HE EDED THE STUNT PAPER AT THE UNIVERSY OF OREGON AND GRADUATED WH A JOURNALISM GREE 1975.JOURNALISM CAREERSHILTS NTUED TO BE OPEN ABOUT HIS SEXUALY WHILE PURSUG A REPORTG REER, WHICH MA DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO FD WORK. EVENTUALLY, HE LAND A JOB AT THE ADVOTE, A GAY AND LBIAN PUBLITN. HE FIRST WORKED OREGON, THEN SAN FRANCIS, REMAG AT THE ADVOTE UNTIL 1978. IN SAN FRANCIS, HE ALSO SERVED AS A NTRIBUTOR AT A PUBLIC TELEVISN AND AN PENNT TV STATN UNTIL 1980.WHEN SHILTS JOED THE SAN FRANCIS CHRONICLE 1981 HE WAS THE PUBLITN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JOURNALIST. HE HAD BEEN HIRED TO VER ISSU THE GAY MUNY, THOUGH HE ALSO REPORTED OTHER STORI. AS PART OF HIS BEAT, HE WROTE ABOUT THE GROWG NUMBER OF IMMUNE SYSTEM-RELATED DISEAS OCCURRG GAY MEN SAN FRANCIS. SHILTS GRASPED THE SIGNIFINCE OF THE VELOPG STORY AND NVCED THE PAPER TO LET HIM REPORT ON FULL-TIME.IN HIS WRG, SHILTS EVENTUALLY PHED FOR BATHHOE CLOSUR TO STEM THE SPREAD OF AIDS. THIS STANCE ALIENATED HIM OM THOSE THE GAY MUNY WHO RISTED LIMS ON SEXUAL EEDOMS. SOME DUBBED SHILTS A "GAY UNCLE TOM." IN 1984, SHILTS EXPLAED, "GAY ACTIVISTS MAY BE ABLE TO BULLSH SOME REPORTER OM THE LOS ANGEL TIM BY TELLG HIM THAT THE BATHS DON'T PLAY ANY ROLE THE AIDS EPIMIC, BUT THEY N'T BULLSH ME, BEE I KNOW WHAT GO ON THE BATHHO. I ED TO GO THERE MYSELF."BOOKSFOLLOWG THE 1978 ASSASSATN OF HARVEY MILK, ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY POLICIANS TO W PUBLIC OFFICE, SHILTS WROTE THE MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET: THE LIFE AND TIM OF HARVEY MILK (1982). THE BOOK WAS A BGRAPHY OF MILK, WH WHOM SHILTS HAD BEEN IENDLY, THAT ALSO VERED THE GROWG POLIL POWER OF THE LGBT MUNY SAN FRANCIS.SHILTS' NEXT BOOK WAS AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: POLICS, PEOPLE AND THE AIDS EPIMIC (1987). IN HE ADDRSED THE BEGNG OF AMERI'S AIDS EPIMIC, THE IMPACT ON THE GAY MUNY AND THE DIFFERENT ERNMENT RPONSE. AND THE BAND PLAYED ON BEME A BTSELLER AND WAS ADAPTED TO A TV MOVIE THAT AIRED 1993. THE BOOK HAS BEEN CRICIZED FOR S PICTN OF GAETAN DUGAS, A CANADIAN FLIGHT ATTENDANT, AS "PATIENT ZERO." DUGAS WAS ASSOCIATED WH A CLTER OF AIDS S LOS ANGEL BUT DID NOT TRODUCE HIV TO NORTH AMERI OR E S SPREAD THE UNED STAT.IN HIS FAL BOOK, CONDUCT UNBEG: LBIANS AND GAYS THE U.S. MILARY, VIETNAM TO THE PERSIAN GULF (1993), SHILTS LVED TO THE DISCRIMATN AND PERSECUTN FACED BY LBIANS AND GAYS TRYG TO SERVE THE U.S. ARY. HE WAS SPIRED TO TACKLE THE TOPIC BEE HE FELT, "THE ARY ISSUE IS A WAY OF SHOWG THE EXTENT TO WHICH PREJUDICE SHAP THE LIV OF GAY PEOPLE." WHILE WRG THE BOOK, HE VELOPED AIDS. SHILTS FISHED CONDUCT UNBEG WHILE THE HOSPAL WH A LLAPSED LUNG.CONDUCT UNBEG NTAED ANONYMO PICTNS OF CLOSETED FOUR-STAR GENERALS, RULTG CRICISM OF SHILTS FOR NOT OUTG THEM. HE BELIEVED THAT INTIFYG PUBLIC FIGUR AS GAY WHOUT THEIR NSENT WAS WRONG.SHILTS TEND FOR HIS NEXT BOOK'S TOPIC TO BE HOMOSEXUALY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.BGRAPHYA BGRAPHY OF SHILTS TLED THE JOURNALIST OF CASTRO STREET: THE LIFE OF RANDY SHILTS WAS PUBLISHED 2019.HIV AND AIDSSHILTS RECEIVED AN HIV-POSIVE DIAGNOSIS MARCH 1987. HE'D ASKED HIS DOCTOR TO WA UNTIL AND THE BAND PLAYED ON WAS FISHED TO GIVE HIM THE NEWS, AS HE DID NOT WANT HIS OWN HEALTH STAT TO AFFECT HIS WRG. THOUGH IALLY DNTED BY THE DIAGNOSIS, SHILTS SOON STARTED HIS NEXT BOOK, CONDUCT UNBEG.IN 1992, SHILTS' ILLNS TURNED TO AIDS. HE VELOPED PNMONIA AND KAPOSI'S SARA, A NCER THAT OCCURRED DUE TO HIS WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEM. HOWEVER, SHILTS DID NOT PUBLICLY SHARE HIS DIAGNOSIS UNTIL 1993. HE EXPLAED, "EVERY GAY WRER WHO TTS POSIVE ENDS UP BEG AN AIDS ACTIVIST, AND I DON'T WANT TO END UP BEG AN ACTIVIST. I WANTED TO KEEP ON BEG A REPORTER."PERSONAL LIFEIN HIS ADULT LIFE SHILTS BATTLED ALHOL AND DG ADDICTN. ON MEMORIAL DAY 1993, SHILTS HELD A CIVIL MMENT CEREMONY WH PARTNER BARRY BARBIERI.DEATHSHILTS DIED AT THE AGE OF 42 GUERNEVILLE, CALIFORNIA, ON FEBARY 17, 1994. THE E OF ATH WAS AIDS. THE WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH PICKETED HIS {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

Kantrowz beme the anizatn’s vice print 1970, which was also the year he me to grips wh his own 1985, he was a foundg member of the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (now known as GLAAD), which was tablished to unter negative media verage generated by the AIDS memoir, “Unr the Rabow: Growg Up Gay” (1977), exposed to a wi dience the difficulti he and his gay ntemporari faced the 1950s and ’60s and relled how he had nonted them — cludg two suici attempts.

“He was a lear of the generatn of activists the immediate aftermath of the Stonewall Rebelln who put their liv and livelihoods on the le to advance the e of gay liberatn, ” Andy Humm wrote last month on Mass lled Mr. He was named chairman of the English partment Kantrowz was a leadg proponent of the work of Walt Whman and the thor of a bgraphy of Whman that was published 2005 as part of the seri “Gay and Lbian Wrers.