When we rise my life in the movement Jones, Cleve creator author. text biography Personal Narratives. Personal Narrative Autobiography Personal narratives. Autobiographies. Biographies. History. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. Autobiographies. Récits personnels. nyu 2016 2016 First edition. monographic eng print x, 291 pages : portraits ; 24 cm 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. 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." Cleve Jones. "The partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC miniseries ..."--Jacket. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is inscribed by the author. n-us--- n-us-ca 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 Jones, Cleve Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome psychology Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome history History, 20th Century Human Rights Sexual and Gender Minorities history United States Homosexuels masculins États-Unis Biographies Activistes homosexuels États-Unis Biographies Sidéens États-Unis Biographies Homosexuels Droits États-Unis Histoire Homosexuels Californie San Francisco Histoire Médecine Histoire 20e siècle Droits de l'homme (Droit international) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY LGBT BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Personal Memoirs HISTORY Social History POLITICAL SCIENCE Civil Rights Jones, Cleve Human rights AIDS activists AIDS (Disease) Patients Gay activists Gay men Gay rights Gays California San Francisco United States 1900-1999 fast HQ75.8.J66 A3 2016 306.76/6092 B 2017 C-449 WC 503.7 BIO031000 HIS054000 POL004000 BIO026000 9780316315432 0316315435 9780316315449 2017286157 Hachette Books, 53 State st 9th Fl, Boston, MA, USA, 02109, (617)2270730 NLM 161116 20221003200842.7 in00003755806 eng