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Cleve Jones by Michael Bry

Cleve Jones’ memoir says gay rights movement saved his life

December 1, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, Out Loud

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,…

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