Cleve Jones
Auteur van When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
Over de Auteur
Cleve Jones co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conceived the Idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which memorializes more than 85,000 Americans who have died from AIDS. Jones was portrayed by Emile Hirsch in Milk and by Guy Pearce in When We Rise. He lives in San Francisco, works as a toon meer labor activist, and speaks to audience around the world. toon minder
Fotografie: Cleve Jones. Photo by Greg Hernandez.
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1954-10-10
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Opleiding
- San Francisco State University
- Beroepen
- Politician
Community organizer
Lecturer - Organisaties
- The NAMES Project
San Francisco AIDS Foundation - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Honorary Doctorate, Haverford College
Honorary Doctorate, Starr King School for the Ministry
Nicole Murray-Ramirez Lifetime Achievement Award
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- 391
- Populariteit
- #61,941
- Waardering
- 4.2
- Besprekingen
- 13
- ISBNs
- 14
Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I recommend this to anyone who wants to know more about the movement for equal rights for LGBTQ people. As a gay man close in age to Cleve, and one who has not been politically active, it reminded me again of the tremendous debt that we LGBTQ people owe those who have been active in fighting for our rights.
As a memoir of his life it also brought back so many of my own memories of the times we've lived through. I had the good fortune to meet the author in the early 2000's when he talked about his work on the Quilt to a conference of gay men meeting in San Francisco. I was impressed then with his easy way with a story and that comes through here in this book.… (meer)