When We Rise : BROAD speaks to Cleve Jones
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BROADs Sonja Hammer has the great honour to speak with Gay activist and icon Cleve Jones :
‘Cleve Jones is an American human rights activist, author and lecturer. Jones joined the gay liberation movement in the early 1970s. He was mentored by pioneer LGBT activist Harvey Milk and worked in Milk’s City Hall office as a student intern until Milk’s assassination in 1978.
Jones co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983 and founded The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, (<- Link to: http://www.aidsquilt.org/) one of the world’s largest community arts projects, in 1987. HarperCollins published his first book, “Stitching a Revolution,” in 2000.
Jones was portrayed by Emile Hirsch in Gus Van Sant’s Oscar-winning film, “MILK,” and was the historical consultant for the production. Jones led the 2009 National March for Equality in Washington, DC and served on the Advisory Board of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which challenged California’s Proposition 8 in the US Supreme Court.’
Hachette Book Group has published his new memoir, “When We Rise,” which is now available. The ABC TV ( America) mini-series inspired in part by stories from Cleve’s book is currently is to be released in Australia through SBS On Demand from march 1st 2017, with screenplay by Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black.
Cleve talks to Sonja about ‘The Movement’ and what that meant to him as a young gay man in the 1970s and his experiences from being inspired by lesbian feminists the Daughters of Bilitis to the bath houses of San Fran to working with the iconic gay politician Harvey Milk to the epidemic of AIDS and the creation of The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Cleve is a fascinating, engaging and intelligent man and living hero of the queer liberation movement of the 20th and 21st century.
Sonja and BROAD would like to thank Cleve Jones and the team at Hachette Publishing for the opportunity to speak to him.
“I want people to understand that for gay men of my generation feminism was a lifeline….and I was very very deeply influenced by women like Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon …..feminism said our destinies are not determined by our gender and for me so much of the lgbt movement is based on and on the shoulders of these women who came before us”
Cleve Jones
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