{"product_id":"when-we-rise-9781472126658","title":"When We Rise","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe partial inspiration for the acclaimed mini-series from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJones 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 bul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnlightening . . . Unsparing . . . Powerful. * Booklist (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003eYou could read Cleve Jones's book because you should know about the struggle for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights from one of its key participants - maybe heroes - but really, you should read it for pleasure and joy. It's an incredibly vivid evocation of a bygone era and a poignant story of someone who started out feeling like the only gay person in the world and ended up organizing millions of them. I loved it for the firsthand history, and the crazily great details about drag queens, radical excess, passionate idealism, how to change the world and everything else that matters most. * Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me *\u003cbr\u003eSome people witness history; other actually make it happen. Cleve Jones, by planting himself boldly in the eye of the storm, has succeeded brilliantly at doing both. * Armistead Maupin, New York Times bestselling author of the Tales of the City series *\u003cbr\u003eI loved this amazing, inspiring, and sometimes outrageous book. \u003ci\u003eWhen We Rise\u003c\/i\u003e is about the building of a movement - and the building of Cleve Jones, who came to San Francisco as a teenage adventurer and transformed into an activist whose contributions helped change the course of gay history. * Gus Van Sant *\u003cbr\u003eCleve Jones is a history buff who has himself become part of history. He has been at the epicenter of the LGBT movement for over 45 years. Now, in \u003ci\u003eWhen We Rise\u003c\/i\u003e, Cleve takes us along on his personal journey in the fight for equal rights - a journey filled with humour, sadness, love and ultimately profound change. * Rob Reiner *\u003cbr\u003eAn ode San Francisco . . . an inspiring reminder that one can go from 'daydreaming about sex and revolution' to making them reality. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen We Rise\u003c\/i\u003e is a song to what's best in us, when we join together in a movement that takes us higher. The story Cleve Jones tells of a bullied boy from the sun-blasted Arizona suburbs, who finds an extended family among the street kids of San Francisco and then within the gay movement that revolutionized the world-is thrilling to read. The path to freedom is littered with the names of fallen loved ones. But through all the sorrows and setbacks, Jones persevered-and the movement for human liberation that he helped lead still rises. * David Talbot, bestselling author of The Season of the Witch and The Devil's Chessboard *\u003cbr\u003eIn this touching and timely memoir, Cleve relives his fascinating life, from adolescent blunders to his conception of the world-famous AIDS Memorial Quilt. * Brit + Co *\u003cbr\u003eEssential reading. * Village Voice *\u003cbr\u003eJones takes readers on his thrilling, if perilous, voyage from fey, long-haired teen hitching his way from his home in Arizona to San Francisco, to becoming the mentee of Harvey Milk ... Jones survives San Francisco's viciously homophobic police in the '70s and, later, the AIDS epidemic that took his dearest friends. In the process, he helps mobilize the anguished, fiery momentum of LGBTQ rights in the United States. * Slate *\u003cbr\u003eSweeping and profoundly moving... At a critical time in our nation's history when many are afraid and so much is uncertain, \u003ci\u003eWhen We Rise\u003c\/i\u003e is a pertinent reminder to all to stand up and continue fighting for what we believe in. * Accidental Bear *\u003cbr\u003eNow more than ever we must understand the history of queer activism in order to successfully continue on the legacy of those who came before us... We all need to read [\u003ci\u003eWhen We Rise\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e * Gayletter *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739373875543,"sku":"9781472126658","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/when-we-rise-9781472126658","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}