When we rise : my life in the movement

When we rise : my life in the movement / Cleve Jones.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Cleve (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hachette Books, 2017.
Edition:First trade paperback edition.
Subjects:
Jones, Cleve.
Gay men > Biography.
Gay activists > Biography.
AIDS activists > Biography.
AIDS (Disease) > Patients > Biography.
Gay rights > History.
Gays > California > San Francisco > History.
San Francisco (Calif.) > History > 20th century.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.
Table of 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.".

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