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The Resource When we rise : my life in the movement, Cleve Jones

When we rise : my life in the movement, Cleve Jones

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Author
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Summary
  • 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."--Dust jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 291 pages
Note
"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."
Isbn
9780316315432
Instance
Label
When we rise : my life in the movement
Title
When we rise
Title remainder
my life in the movement
Statement of responsibility
Cleve Jones
Creator
DLRYClUs1Fw
Author
DLRYClUs1Fw
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • 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."--Dust jacket
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
NjBwBT
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Jones, Cleve
Dewey number
  • 306.76/6092
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
HQ75.8.J66
LC item number
A3 2016
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Jones, Cleve
  • Gay men
  • Gay activists
  • AIDS activists
  • AIDS (Disease)
  • Gay rights
  • Gays
  • San Francisco (Calif.)
  • Jones, Cleve
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • HISTORY / Social History
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights
  • AIDS activists
  • AIDS (Disease)
  • Gay activists
  • Gay men
  • Gay rights
  • Gays
  • California
  • United States
Label
When we rise : my life in the movement, Cleve Jones
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Publication
Copyright
Note
"The partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC miniseries..." -- jacket
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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."
Control code
962751788
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 291 pages
Isbn
9780316315432
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
UMKC: Z Coll. copy 1 is a gift purchased by the UMKC Friends of the Library and forms part of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America Collection.
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)962751788
Label
When we rise : my life in the movement, Cleve Jones
Publication
Copyright
Note
"The partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC miniseries..." -- jacket
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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."
Control code
962751788
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 291 pages
Isbn
9780316315432
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
UMKC: Z Coll. copy 1 is a gift purchased by the UMKC Friends of the Library and forms part of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America Collection.
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)962751788

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