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When We Rise : My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones (2016, Hardcover)

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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.

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Publisher
Hachette Books
ISBN-10
0316315435
ISBN-13
9780316315432
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219222889

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Book Title
When We Rise : My Life in the Movement
Author
Cleve Jones
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Social History, Lgbt
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Hq75.8
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"You could read Cleve Jones's book because you shouldknow about the struggle for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights from one ofits key participants-maybe heroes--but really, you should read it for pleasureand joy. It's an incredibly vivid evocation of a bygone era and a poignantstory of someone who started out feeling like the only gay person in the worldand ended up organizing millions of them. I loved it for the firsthand history,and the crazily great details about drag queens, radical excess, passionateidealism, how to change the world and everything else that matters most."-- Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2017-286157
Dewey Decimal
306.76/6092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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Great lgbt history and, despite profanity and lots of sex, very realistic for the time. Time has changed and the lgbt community is more relational, it is still seeking and committed to liberation
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