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I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in 1972. If you had told me in 1972 that in the year 2009 I would be campaigning for the right to join the army or get married I think I would have started dating women at that time.

Cleve Jones

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Cleve Jones
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 10
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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.
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Most people do not have access to medication.
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Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!
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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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We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.
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I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.
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A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little
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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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This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.
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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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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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I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.
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I saw great hope in the Sanders campaign - a flawed candidate, not perfect, but pretty damn close. Millions of young people were inspired by him.
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People's lives can be transformed by the movement.
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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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The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished.
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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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There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able to reduce homelessness among veterans. It's a pretty shameful situation.
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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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