Unfinished Work
Unfinished Work
One of Shilts’s last interviews, with Steve Kroft from CBS’ 60 Minutes, considers his breakthrough role as a gay journalist. Shilts’s future plans for a book about alleged sexual abuse inside the Catholic Church, and his desire for a national column are revealed. Shilts’s last interviews and written words reflect the fleeting nature of his life as he attempts to promote his final book, Conduct Unbecoming. Shilts’s health continues to deteriorate until he dies at his Guerneville, California home on February 17, 1994. Shilts’s death wins nationwide notice and his funeral becomes the first-ever picketed by members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church. Shilts’s friends, colleagues and his partner, Barry Barbieri, offer insight into his last months of life.
Keywords: 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft, openly gay journalist, AIDS complications, Conduct Unbecoming, book editors, HIV status, HIS disclosure, stay-at-home book tour, And the Band Played On, HIV testing, film release, William F. Buckley Jr, AZT drug treatments, AIDS pandemic, Cleve Jones, Leah Garchik, Susan Sward, David Perlman, Lori Olszewski, David Tuller, Bill German, Keith Power, San Francisco Chronicle, The Advocate, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, Clinton administration, New York Times obituary, Mayor of Castro Street, Dr. Selma Dritz, Donna Shalala, Dr. Marcus Conant, Frank M. Robinson, Harvey Milk, Dr. Don Francis, Perry Watkins, Leroy Aarons, Rev. Cecil Williams, Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, Howard Wallace, International AIDS Conference, Westboro Baptist Church, Rev. Fred Phelps, San Francisco Police Department, God Hates Fags, Gary Shilts, San Francisco Public Library, University of Oregon, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, Human Rights Campaign, Eighteenth Street Services, Barry Barbieri, Rainbow Cattle Company
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