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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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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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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 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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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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I think support of the straight community is very important and I think there has been a profound shift in public opinion seen reflected in many ways. We do not need straight people to speak for us but we do want straight people to stand with us.
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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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The joy with which we denigrate each others' efforts, I hate that.
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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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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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Hello! The world is a mess!
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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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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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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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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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The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished.
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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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A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little
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Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!
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People's lives can be transformed by the movement.
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The whole function of cities has been transformed.
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