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When we rise : my life in the movement / Cleve Jones.
Author
Jones, Cleve
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : Hachette Books, [2016]
©2016
Description
x, 291 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HQ75.8.J66 A3 2016
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Subject(s)
Gay men
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United States
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Biography
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Gay activists
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United States
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Biography
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AIDS activists
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United States
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Biography
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AIDS (Disease)
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Patients
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United States
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Biography
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Gay rights
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United States
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History
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Gay people
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California
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San Francisco
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History
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Human rights
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San Francisco (Calif.)
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History
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20th century
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Jones, Cleve
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Homosaurus term(s)
Gay rights
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Autobiographies
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Personal narratives
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Getty AAT genre
autobiographies (literary works)
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Summary note
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."--Jacket.
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."
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ISBN
9780316315432 ((hardcover))
0316315435 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2017286157
OCLC
962751788
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