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The majority of new infections in America are among young gay and bisexual men of color, and the full resources that could be brought to bear simply are not.
Cleve Jones
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Cleve Jones
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 10
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I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.
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A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little
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The reality is that the gayborhoods are going away. It's because of many factors, including the internet and increased acceptance, but mostly it's the cost of housing.
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Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.
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The joy with which we denigrate each others' efforts, I hate that.
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We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.
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The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.
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The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished.
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Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.
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I think that a big part of the energy that was going into fighting AIDS was reduced when we saw that more of the new infections were among our black and brown young people. That's a sad truth to have to claim, but I believe it's true.
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Most people do not have access to medication.
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If you're gonna build units for the rich, you're gonna build units for the poor.
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Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.
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Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.
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I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of great good.
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A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.
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During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.
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The whole function of cities has been transformed.
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People's lives can be transformed by the movement.
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When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.
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