When We Rise: My Journey in the Civil Rights Movement

Amazon Customer: This is a book for all gay and straight parents. I lived my 20’s in his years. I laughed and cried through it all.

United States on Aug 18, 2023

Aleyda Flores: Amazing book anyone interested in activism

Germany on Aug 10, 2023

Julia A. Riddle: Thankful for this man’s fight! I am glad to have walked next to him in his journey through this book.

United States on Jun 01, 2023

Richard Nordin: Cleve has done so much for the movement, but this book is an important view of history for those not yet born. It had this old gay guy in tears. I close by saying “We” thank you, thank you, thank you.

United States on May 19, 2023

Marleen: Fascinating, eye-opening, tear-inducing, heartwarming, and inspiring. A book that makes me want to do better; a story that encourages me not to give up.

United Kingdom on Mar 14, 2023

CARLOS: Imprescindible para entender cómo, dónde y cuando el colectivo LGTBI se alzó en las calles para reivindicar sus derechos. Narrado por uno de los mayores activistas que jamás tendrá el colectivo. Un honor y un placer leerle.

Spain on Aug 08, 2022

marco: Ottimo

Italy on Mar 09, 2022

Ashley: Good product

United Kingdom on Jan 29, 2022

Nicholas F Benton: Cleve Jones is the author of the current best-selling book, We Will Rise, My Life in the Movement (New York, Hachette Books, 2016) that formed the basis for the recent TV mini-series by the same name on ABC. This memoir of his life in the gay movement is unique for the first-person, eye-witness, up close and personal accounts it provides by a close associate of San Francisco's legendary gay icon Harvey Milk. It offers spellbinding descriptions of Milk's influence, his horrific assassination in November 1978, and of Jones' growing role in the LGBT movement since.

Jones, who invented the idea for the Names Quilts response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s that brought home the personal dimension of the epidemic, had a major role as a consultant in the making of the 2008 Academy Award winning film, Milk, when he parlayed his friendships with its screenwriter Justin Lance Black and producer Gus Van Sant into an extraordinary portrayal of Milk's career. Sean Penn won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Milk, Emile Hirsch portrayed Jones, who approved of the choice (“except that I am taller,” he wrote), and Black won an Oscar for his script.

In fact, Jones was sitting...

United States on Mar 20, 2017

Joyousreads: When most of Americans exalted at the news that marriage equality was finally the law of their land, the world joined in the celebration. #LoveWins trended for days after the proclamation. And the religious right stayed in their homes clutching their pearls while they prayed for everybody’s souls.

Now I sit here with worry. Because among all the other disturbing things that are happening in the States right now, there is something else simmering on the stove of this ridiculous administration: the new VP is a huge proponent of conversion therapy for gay people. I wouldn’t put it past them to enact something as heinous as sending kids to a gay camp to cure them of their burgeoning homosexuality. Adding to the worry is the vacant SCOTUS seat which, judging by the cabinet members President Shit For Brains has been installing, will more than likely be filled by another bigot. (I feel like I’ve been angry since November and I’m not even sorry. ) For now, at least, the marriage equality is safe (fingers crossed).

When We Rise is a memoir that needs to be read by everyone. It comes at an anxious, but much-needed time. If the November election has thought us anything,...

United States on Feb 13, 2017