![]() ![]() With Milk's encouragement, Jones dove into politics and found his calling in 'the movement.' ![]() Jones 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. 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. Join us in welcoming one of the leading figures in the gay rights movement speaking on his memoir 'When We Rise: My Life in the Movement'īorn in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. ![]()
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