American Human Rights Activist, Author and Lecturer
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, one of the world’s largest community arts projects, in 1987. HarperCollins published his first book, “Stitching a Revolution,” in 2000. Hachette Book Group published his new memoir, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement, in November 2016
TUE-B04: Reflection of the Gay Rights Movement in the Memorial Landscape
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
2:00pm – 3:15pm ET