When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
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    [synopsis] => 2017 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER 

The partial inspiration for the ABC television mini-series! 

"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  participants--maybe heroes--but really, you should read it for pleasure  and joy."--Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me

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 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  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 co-founding 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. Cleve Jones' career as an activist began in San Francisco in 1970s where he befriended pioneer gay rights leader Harvey Milk. After Milk's death, Jones co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which memorializes over 85,000 Americans who have died from AIDS. He lives in San Francisco and works as a labor activist. "Enlightening.... Unsparing.... Powerful."-Booklist (starred review) "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 participants-maybe heroes--but really, you should read it for pleasure and joy. It's an incredibly vivid evocation of a bygone era and a poignant story of someone who started out feeling like the only gay person in the world and ended up organizing millions of them. I loved it for the firsthand history, and the crazily great details about drag queens, radical excess, passionate idealism, how to change the world and everything else that matters most."-Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me "I loved this amazing, inspiring, and sometimes outrageous book. When We Rise is about the building of a movement--and the building of Cleve Jones, who came to San Francisco as a teenage adventurer and transformed into an activist whose contributions helped change the course of gay history."-Gus Van Sant "Cleve Jones is a history buff who has himself become part of history. He has been at the epicenter of the LGBT movement for over 45 years. Now, in When We Rise, Cleve takes us along on his personal journey in the fight for equal rights--a journey filled with humor, sadness, love and ultimately profound change."-Rob Reiner "Some people witness history; other actually make it happen
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