Cleve Jones
Cleve Jones | |
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National AIDS Memorial on World AIDS Day, 2019 | |
Born | West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. | October 11, 1954
Education | San Francisco State University |
Occupation | LGBT rights activist |
Known for | NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt |
Website | clevejones |
Cleve Jones (born October 11, 1954) is an American
Early life
Jones was born in West Lafayette, Indiana. He moved with his family to Scottsdale, Arizona, when he was 14 and was a student at Arizona State University for a time.[2] Jones claimed, however, he never really accepted the Phoenix area as his home.[2] His father was a psychologist and his mother was a Quaker, a faith she held at least in part to benefit her son in the era of the draft for the Vietnam War.[2] He did not reveal his sexual orientation to his parents until he was 18.[3][2]
His career as an activist began in
Career
In 1981, Jones went to work in the district office of State Assemblyman
Jones conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at a candlelight memorial for Harvey Milk in 1985 and in 1987 created the first quilt panel in honor of his friend Marvin Feldman.[12] The AIDS Memorial Quilt has grown to become the world's largest community arts project, memorializing the lives of over 85,000 Americans killed by AIDS.[13]
Jones ran for a position on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the November 3, 1992 election.[14]
Jones has been working with UNITE HERE, the hotel, restaurant, and garment workers' labor union on homophobia issues.[11] He is a driving force behind the Sleep With The Right People campaign, which aims to convince LGBT tourists to stay only in hotels that respect the rights of their workers.[15] Another part of Jones's work with UNITE HERE is making the labor movement more open to LGBT members.[16]
In an interview in November 2016 with
In the same interview, Jones also talked about the time when he became seriously ill, and how he responded rapidly to the "cocktail" of drugs[17] that fought the virus, in the earliest trials of it. He described his present health as good.[3] The interview was based on Jones's book, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement, and the television program When We Rise, broadcast in February and March 2017 on ABC in the USA.[3][18] A theme of the interview was that activism saved his life, as he was in the early drug trials, part of the group pushing the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) to stop doing double-blind trials as soon as it was clear that the cocktail of drugs saved lives.
Film, theater and major parades
Jones is portrayed by actor
Jones took part in a documentary, Echoes of Yourself in the Mirror, about the HIV/AIDS epidemic, speaking during World AIDS Day in 2005. In the documentary he talks about the idea behind the AIDS Memorial Quilt, as well as the activism of San Francisco citizens in the 1970s and '80s to help people affected by AIDS and to figure out what the disease was. The film also looks at the impact HIV/AIDS is having in communities of color, and the young.
He was one of the Official
He participated as an actor in the Los Angeles premiere of
See also
References
- ISBN 0-415-22974-X.
- ^ a b c d Jones, Cleve (2016). When We Rise: My Life in the Movement. Hachette Books.
- ^ a b c d "LGBTQ Activist Cleve Jones: 'I'm Well Aware How Fragile Life Is'". NPR Fresh Air. November 30, 2016. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
- AZ Central. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
- ^ Laird, Cynthia (January 22, 2009). "News in brief: Jones to speak at UC Berkeley". Bay Area Reporter. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
- ^ Jones, Cleve (March 15, 2009). "What Would Harvey Milk Say About President Clinton's Speech at the Manchester Hyatt?". HuffPost. Archived from the original on June 6, 2021. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
- Frontline. PBS. December 7, 2004. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
- ^ "FrontiersLA.com - Cleve Jones – Happy Birthday! 60 and Still Kicking (Photos, Video)". Frontiers Publishing. Archived from the original on October 13, 2014. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
- ^ "We Were Here". PBS. Archived from the original on November 16, 2014. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
- ^ "San Francisco AIDS Foundation. []". Retrieved October 23, 2014.
- ^ a b c Harmanci, Reyhan (November 23, 2008). "Milk actors and the people they play". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
- ^ Wilson, Craig (December 7, 1987). "The man who sewed together the stories of thousands". USA Today. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
- ^ Merkle, Karen Rene (November 20, 2000). "The Cathedral of St. Paul has been displaying the AIDS Memorial Quilt". Erie Times-News. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
- ^ "San Francisco Voter Information Pamphlet and Sample Ballot" (PDF). Office of the Registrar of Voters. 1992. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 25, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
- ^ Kerr, Bob (October 31, 2007). "The Quilt has taught us for 20 years". The Providence Journal. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
- ^ "When We Rise: Cleve Jones and UNITE HERE". UNITE HERE!. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ "Attacking AIDS with a 'Cocktail' Therapy: Drug Combo Sends Deaths Plummeting". FDA HIV/AIDS News. July 1, 1999. Archived from the original on December 1, 2016. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
- ISBN 978-0316315432.
- New York Pride. June 24, 2014. Archived from the originalon February 27, 2012. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
Bibliography
- Jones, Cleve (2016). When We Rise: My Life in the Movement, Hachette Books. ISBN 9780316315432
- Jones, Cleve, with Dawson, Jeff (2000). Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist. ISBN 0062516426
- ISBN 0-312-52330-0
External links
- Official website
- Cleve Jones at IMDb
- FRONTLINE interview: Cleve Jones
- AIDS Memorial Quilt
- Trailer for Echoes of Yourself in the Mirror on YouTube, showing Cleve Jones speaking at San Francisco State University.