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Canceled: Author: Cleve Jones: When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

A partnership The San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Tuesday, 10/17/2023
5:30 - 7:30
Koret Auditorium
Koret Lobby
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

A not to miss evening with Cleve Jones reading from his book When We Rise: My Life in the Movement followed by a discussion between Cleve Jones and Dr. Tyler TerMeer, Chief Executive Officer, San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Presented in partnership with Litquake.

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, 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. 

Jones lives today in rural Northern California.

Connect:

Cleve Jones - Website | Cleve Jones - Instagram | Cleve Jones - Twitter

San Francisco AIDS Foundation - Website | San Francisco AIDS Foundation - Instagram

Litquake - Webiste | Litquake - Instagram

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