change?" In 1998, Shilts was memorialized in the Hall of Achievement at the University of Oregon School of Journalism, honoring his refusal to be "boxed in by the limits that society offered him. As an out gay man, he carved a place in journalism that was not simply groundbreaking but internationally influential in changing the way the news media covered AIDS." A San Francisco Chronicle reporter summed up the achievement of his late "brash and gutsy" colleague: 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. In 2006, Reporter Zero, a half-hour biographical documentary about Shilts featuring interviews with friends and colleagues, was produced and directed by filmmaker Carrie Lozano. Shilts is the subject of a 2019 biography, The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts by Andrew E. Stoner, released May 30, 2019 from the University of Illinois Press. In 2014 Shilts was one of the inaugural honorees in the Rainbow Honor Walk, a walk of fame in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood noting LGBTQ people who have "made significant contributions in their fields." In June 2019, Shilts was one of the inaugural fifty American “pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes” inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument in New York City’s Stonewall Inn. Bibliography Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today, by Howard J. Brown, M.D., Introduction by Randy Shilts, 1976 () The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, 1982 () And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1980–1985), 1987 () Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military, 1993 () Further reading Andrew E. Stoner: The Journalist of Castro Street. The Life of Randy Shilts. University of Illinois Press, 2019, (paperback), (ebook) References External links "Alband (Linda) Collection of Randy Shilts Materials" at Calisphere "AIDS at 25 – Reflections on reporter Randy Shilts," podcast by the San Francisco Chronicle Randy Shilts on glbtq.com 1951 births 1994 deaths 20th-century American biographers 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American male writers 20th-century LGBT people AIDS-related deaths in California American gay writers American male biographers