A review by jake_powell
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones

5.0

Reading Cleve’s narrative of the early years of the AIDS crisis certainly added a new perspective to my understanding of that period, but it was his recounting of the years between Stonewall and AIDS that will forever stay with me. The delight of San Francisco’s heigh day, the communities that lifted each other up, the fear, the nascent activism - those are years I think were missing from my understanding of queer history in a big way. I feel like I have a new grasp on the queer rights movement after reading this, and in many ways feel re-energized to get out there and find joy in the fight.