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Jones, Cleve.
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Jones, Cleve.
Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
Gay activists -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS activists -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Gay rights -- United States -- History.
Gays -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Jones, Cleve.
Jones, Cleve.
Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
Gay activists -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS activists -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Gay rights -- United States -- History.
Gays -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
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When we rise : my life in the movement /
Cleve
Jones
.
by
Jones
,
Cleve
.
Hachette Books, 2016.
Call #:
306.766092 J765w
Subjects
Jones
,
Cleve
.
Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
Gay activists -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS activists -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Gay rights -- United States -- History.
Gays -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780316315432 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"The partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC miniseries..." -- jacket.
Contents:
Ghost ranch -- Gay liberation Arizona desert -- Polk Street -- Betty Blender finds a tree house -- Struggling for solidarity -- Going to the tubs -- On the road -- Père Lachaise -- On Barer Strasse -- Homesick -- Ten million queers -- Back to Scott -- Anita Bryant -- Summer of '77 -- Supervisor Harvey Bernard Milk -- Building the army -- Raise the sky -- A victory and a massacre -- A long winter -- White night -- We march on Washington -- Sacramento -- The avalanche -- One thousand dead -- Needle and thread -- A stupid idea -- We bring a quilt -- Ricardo -- Loma Prieta -- Counting the days -- The president sees the quilt -- A new world -- Making Milk -- Proposition 8 -- New life -- Meet in the middle -- National equality march -- Equality across America -- "Something greater than once they were.".
Summary:
A longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist offers an account of his life from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his present-day involvement with the marriage equality battle.
"Born in 1954,
Cleve
Jones
was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people,
Jones
, nearly penniless, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom.
Jones
found community--in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers, in the city's bathhouses and bars like The Stud, and in the burgeoning gay district, the Castro, where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop, began shouting through his bullhorn, and soon became the nation's most outspoken gay elected official. With Milk's encouragement,
Jones
dove into politics and found his calling in 'the movement.' When Milk was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1978,
Jones
took up his mentor's progressive mantle--only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again. By turns tender and uproarious, When We Rise is
Jones
' account of his remarkable life. He chronicles the heartbreak of losing countless friends to AIDS, which very nearly killed him, too; his cofounding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conception of the AIDS Memorial Quilt; the story of 1970s San Francisco and the magnetic spell it cost for thousands of dreamers and misfits; and the harrowing, sexy, and sometimes hilarious stories of
Cleve
's relationships with friends and lovers during an era defined by both unprecedented freedom and violence alike. When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LGBTQ community, but the vibrantly voiced memoir of a full and transformative American life."--Dust jacket.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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