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With gratitude to my spouse, Randolph E. Scott, for his unending support.
Thank you to all others who assisted me in telling this story, including those who participated in interviews for this work: Linda Alband, Edward Alwood, Dr. Marcus A. Conant, Dr. James W. Curran, Dr. William Darrow, Belva Davis, Michael Denneny, Dr. Don Francis, George Greenfield, David Israels, Cleve Jones, Eric Marcus, Ann Neunschwander, Steve Newman, George Osterkamp, Carol Pogash, Michelangelo Signorile, Dr. Mervin Silverman, Susan Sward, and Rita Williams.
Special thanks to members of the Shilts family, including Gary and Judy Shilts and Reed and Dawn Shilts, for all their assistance and support.
Additional thanks to Robert Winder at the Aurora Public Library, Aurora, Illinois; Dr. James Landers, Dr. Patrick Plaisance, Dr. Joe Champ, Dr. Michael Hogan, and Dr. Greg Luft at Colorado State University; Randy Alfred and the GLBT Historical Society Museum and the GayBack Machine Archive, San Francisco; Marilyn Kincaid and the Reverend Cecil Williams at Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco; Christina Moretta and Tim Wilson at the James C. Hormel LGBTQ Center, San Francisco Public Library; Women’s, Gender, & LGBTQ+ Studies at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Michael C. Oliveira at ONE Archives, University of Southern California Libraries, Los Angeles; Sally Smith Hughes at the San Francisco AIDS Oral History Project, University of California, San Francisco; Alex Cherian and Robert Chehoski at the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University; Wes Haley, Alan Mutter, David Perlman, and Susan Sward at the San Francisco Chronicle; the papers of Dr. Marcus A. Conant and Dr. Selma Dritz in the University of California Digital Archives; Jennifer S. Argo, Marika Christofides, Dustin J. Hubbart, and Daniel M. Nasset at the University of Illinois Press; Alan Brown, Michael Dotten, Jerry Harris, Drex Heikes, Gail Hoffnagle, Greg Leo, Robert Liberty, Joshua Marquis, and Lauren Peters at the University of Oregon Alumni Association; and Duncan McDonald at the University of Oregon, School of Journalism & Communication. I am grateful to Bill Bridges, Bethany Crum Roush, and Sonya Stinson for editing assistance and to Dr. Donald Abrams, Barry Barbieri, Karl Bridges, Dani Castillo, J. Wesley Cunningham, Jennifer Finlay, Jordan Gorostiza, Dr. James Haney, Dr. Debbie Hill Davis, Mary Beth Ikard, Dr. Alex Ingersoll, Gary Kass, Carrie Lozano, Edward K. Moore, Steve Polston, S. Cory Robinson, C. Scott Sickels, Dr. Gerri Smith, Danielle Stomberg, Jonathan Swain, and Scott Walters for special assistance.
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