{"product_id":"9780316315449","title":"When We Rise: My Life in the Movement","description":"\u003cb\u003e2017 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe partial inspiration for the ABC television mini-series! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"You  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.\"--Rebecca Solnit, author of \u003cem\u003eMen Explain Things to Me\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\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 bullet in 1978, Jones took up his mentor's progressive  mantle--only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns tender and uproarious, \u003cem\u003eWhen We Rise\u003c\/em\u003e  is Jones' account of his remarkable life. He chronicles the heartbreak  of losing countless friends to AIDS, which very nearly killed him, too;  his co-founding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation during the  terrifying early years of the epidemic; his conception of the AIDS  Memorial Quilt, the largest community art project in history; the  bewitching story of 1970s San Francisco and the magnetic spell it cast  for thousands of young gay people and other misfits; and the harrowing,  sexy, and sometimes hilarious stories of Cleve's passionate  relationships with friends and lovers during an era defined by both  unprecedented freedom and and violence alike. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen We Rise\u003c\/i\u003e  is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community, but the  vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life.","brand":"Hachette Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120854778096,"sku":"9780316315449","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316315449_p0.jpg?v=1769889445","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316315449","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}