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When We Rise - My Life in the Movement (Paperback)
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When We Rise - My Life in the Movement (Paperback)
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Loot Price R378
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The partial inspiration for the acclaimed mini-series from Academy
Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black 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 - and written
entirely in his own words - 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 possibility, and prejudice 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 - an activist whose work continues today.
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