Cleve Jones

Cleve Jones

Country

United States

Birth - Death

1954 -

Occupation

Activist

Notable Achievements

Lambda Literary Award

Description

Conceived of the idea of the Names Project Memorial Quilt, in memory of each individual who has died of Aids. Co-founder of San Francisco Aids Foundation. Author of his autobiographies 'Stitching a Revolution' (2000) and 'When We Rise: My Life in the Movement' (2016, Lambda Literary Award).

See Also

• Global LGBTQ HIV/AIDS Activists
• LGBTQ Inventors

Further Reading/Research

• http://www.clevejones.com/mainmenu.htm
• http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/jones_cleve.html
• http://www.lgbthistorymonth.com/cleve-jones?tab=biography
• https://www.out.com/activism/2020/2/28/cleve-jones-has-spent-last-five-decades-fighting-lgbtq-people

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