This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 2 Cleve Jones' new memoir, "When We Rise: My Life in the Movement," begins with a single-sentence paragraph: "The movement saved my life." "That's not rhetoric, that's not hyperbole: The movement saved my life," he reiterated by phone. "I was going to kill myself. I was planning it when I was 15, and then I read about gay liberation and I thought, 'Oh, there are other people like me; there is a place for me; there is a community; I won't be alone; I will find love.' And so I flushed away the pills I had been saving to kill myself." Before that moment, Jones thought he was "the only one. And it may seem silly now — for younger people it just seems odd that someone could be gay and not know there were others, because you see representations of LGBT lives all the time," said Jones, 62. "But you didn't, when I was young." Learning about the movement inspired Jones, who grew up in Scottsdale, Ariz., to move to San Francisco in 1973, where he befriended and began to work with Harvey Milk. Here, Jones became a… Read full this story
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