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Author Jones, Cleve, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Hachette Books, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  306.766 JONES    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY JONES CLEVE    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. JONES, C.    Storage
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  306.766 JONES    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - New Materials  BIOGRAPHY JONES, CLEVE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B JONES, CLEVE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B JONES    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-JONES JON    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.76 J71    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B JONES, C.    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.".
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.
Subject Jones, Cleve.
Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
Gay activists -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS activists -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Gay rights -- United States -- History.
Gays -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
HISTORY / Social History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780316315432 (hardcover)
0316315435 (hardcover)
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