When We Rise: Coming of Age in San Francisco, AIDS, and My Life in the Movement

When We Rise: Coming of Age in San Francisco, AIDS, and My Life in the Movement

LGBTQ activist Jones, the father of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, imbues his enlightening memoir with a powerful sense of history in the making. From his youth in the Arizona desert-an apt metaphor for the sexually confused and isolated young man-to his discovery that he did indeed have a place in the wo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Booklist 2016, Vol.113 (2), p.6
1. Verfasser: Chavez, Donna
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Autobiographical literature
Autobiographies
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Jones, Cleve
Nonfiction
Transgender persons
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Zusammenfassung:LGBTQ activist Jones, the father of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, imbues his enlightening memoir with a powerful sense of history in the making. From his youth in the Arizona desert-an apt metaphor for the sexually confused and isolated young man-to his discovery that he did indeed have a place in the world to his national activism, his story builds to a crescendo of LGBTQ-rights breakthroughs. Though these culminated in the U.S.
ISSN:0006-7385