Title
When We Rise: My Life In The Movement
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This Sweeping Memoir Tells The Life Story Of Longtime Lgbtq And Aids Activist Cleve Jones In A Profoundly Moving Account From Sexually Liberated 1970S San Francisco, Through The Aids Crisis, And Up To His 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 Communityin The Hotel Rooms And Ramshackle Apartments Shared By Other Young Adventurers, In The City'S Bathhouses And Gay 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 Mantleonly 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 During The Terrifying Early Years Of The Epidemic; His Conception Of The Aids Memorial Quilt, The Largest Community Art Project In History; The Bewitching Story Of 1970S San Francisco And The Magnetic Spell It Cast For Thousands Of Young Gay People And Other Misfits; And The Harrowing, Sexy, And Sometimes Hilarious Stories Of Cleve'S Passionate Relationships With Friends And Lovers During An Era Defined By Both Unprecedented Freedom And And Violence Alike.When We Rise Is Not Only The Story Of A Hero To The Lqbtq Community, But The Vibrantly Voice Memoir Of A Full And Transformative American Life.Lambda Literary Award Winnerthe Partial Inspiration For The Abc Television Miniseries!You Could Read Cleve Jones'S Book Because You Should Know About The Struggle For Gay, Lesbian, And Transgender Rights From One Of Its Key Participantsmaybe Heroesbut Really, You Should Read It For Pleasure And Joy.Rebecca Solnit, Author Of Men Explain Things To Me
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