Stitching a revolution : the making of an activist / Cleve Jones with Jeff Dawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Cleve.

Contributor:

Dawson, Jeff, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, Cleve.

AIDS activists--California--Biography.

AIDS activists.

AIDS (Disease)--Patients--California--Biography.

AIDS (Disease).

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.

AIDS (Disease)--Patients.

California.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, [2000]

Summary:

From the frontlines of one of the greatest human struggles of our time comes this powerful and moving tale. Both an important cultural history of the AIDS crisis and an intimate personal memoir, Stitching a Revolution is the story of a man who, besieged by discrimination, death, and despair, found the courage and strength of spirit to conceive and create a unique healing vision--the AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Early Years 1

Chapter 2 Coming Out 12

Chapter 3 San Francisco, 1972-1976 23

Chapter 4 Politics: Meeting Harvey 31

Chapter 5 Miss America and the Briggs Initiative 38

Chapter 6 Assassination and White Night 52

Chapter 7 Grand Jury and the Aftermath 69

Chapter 8 Sacramento and Jane Fonda 78

Chapter 9 AIDS 88

Chapter 10 A Vision of the Quilt 103

Chapter 11 Diagnosis Positive 110

Chapter 12 The First Displays: D.C. and S.F., 1987 122

Chapter 13 Touring America 143

Chapter 14 Love and Career 172

Chapter 15 Heroes and Antiheroes 191

Chapter 16 Speaking Out, Pressing On 202

Chapter 17 Running Out of Time 220

Chapter 18 Culmination of a Dream 232

The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt: 1987-2000

Appendix A How to Make a Quilt Panel 267

Appendix B Facts about the AIDS Memorial Quilt 271.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0062516418

0062516426

OCLC:

42719973