Shilts continued to be open about his sexuality while pursuing a reporting career, which made it difficult for him to find work. He edited the student paper at the University of Oregon and graduated with a journalism degree in 1975. While in school he came out of the closet. When it came time for college, Shilts moved to Oregon, where he attended Portland Community College and the University of Oregon. Shilts' mother was an alcoholic who could be physically and emotionally abusive. He was raised in a politically conservative and religious environment in Aurora, Illinois. Shilts was the third of six sons born to Bud and Norma Shilts. Randy Martin Shilts was born in Davenport, Iowa, on August 8, 1951. Military, Vietnam to the Persian Gulf (1993). Shilts also wrote The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982) and the bestselling Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. The book made Shilts a trusted commentator on AIDS, to the point that he was the closing speaker at 1989's Fifth International AIDS Conference in Montreal. He was the author of And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic (1987), a bestseller about the start of America's AIDS epidemic. His writing focused on LGBT issues, including the struggle for gay rights.
Randy Shilts was one of the first openly gay journalists to write for a major newspaper.
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