Cleve Jones: LGBTQ Activist Talks Harvey Milk, AIDS, & Marriage Equality

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Cleve Jones talks about his life in the LGBTQ movement: working with Harvey Milk, starting the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and marching on Washington. He says marriage equality was never part of their mission, only stemming out the AIDS pandemic when they saw how important and life-saving it could be. Cleve also discusses the importance of building community amongst LGBTQ people, and says he is in now in love again and happier than he’s been in years. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1 You can recommend a guest or let us know what you think about the show on Twitter or by emailing [email protected] More information: www.LGBTQpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Hey, this is LGBTQ and A. I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is a show where we get to know different members of the LGBTQ community.
0:08.2	Today I'm talking with Cleave Jones.
0:10.1	Cleave is a legendary activist.
0:12.0	He worked with and was mentored by Harvey Milk.
0:14.2	He created the A's Memorial Quilt and his new memoir, When We Rise, is part of the inspiration for the mini-series of the same name.
0:20.6	Stay tuned.
0:20.9	Hey, Cleve. Hey. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Yeah, I'm so excited to talk.
0:38.3	I love the book.
0:39.9	Thank you.
0:40.4	I think it's so important.
0:42.9	And I just, I've never read such a collection of our history of like the movement.
0:48.8	I don't know many other books like this.
0:50.0	I really meant a lot to me.
0:51.8	Well, I'm very glad to hear that. I was hoping that younger people would read it, and I'm delighted that you are.
0:56.7	Go ahead.
0:57.6	Got one off.
0:59.7	Things have changed so quickly in your lifetime, due in part to a lot of the work that your
1:05.6	generation did.
1:06.8	I don't know that my generation recognizes that as much as I wish.
1:11.1	I got an argument just recently with a young man in a club who just flat out denied that it had
1:18.2	ever been illegal to be gay. He simply did not know that when I was his age, when I was just
1:23.8	coming out, it was a felony. And every police department and every major city in this
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