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

  • Jones, Cleve
Date:
2017
  • Books

About this work

Description

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.

Publication/Creation

New York : Hachette Books, 2017.

Physical description

viii, 292 pages : black and white illustrations ; 20 cm

Contributors

Edition

First trade paperback edition.

Notes

"The partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC miniseries..."--Cover page [4].
Includes a reading group guide.

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.".

Awards note

Lambda Literary Award, 2017

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Jones)
    Open shelves

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Identifiers

ISBN

  • 0316315419
  • 9780316315418