From the frontlines of one of the greatest human struggles of our time comes this powerful and moving tale. Both an important cultural history of the AIDS crisis and an intimate personal memoir, Stitching a Revolution is the story of a man who, besieged by discrimination, death, and despair, found the courage and strength of spirit to conceive and create a unique healing vision-the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Against the turbulent backdrop of politics and sexual liberation in San Francisco during the seventies, Jones recounts his coming-of-age alongside friend and mentor Harvey Milk--and, later, Milk's assassination and the ensuing riots that threatened to tear down all they had accomplished. But Jones's political aspirations were put on hold after the emergence of an insidious, unexplainable "gay cancer" that would soon become known throughout the world as AIDS. Demoralized by the tide of death and despair sweeping his community, brutally assaulted by gay-bashing thugs, and faced with the specter of his own positive diagnosis, Jones sought a way to restore hope to a world falling apart beneath his feet.
What started out as a simple panel of fabric stitched for his best friend now covers a space larger than twenty-five football fields and contains over eighty thousand names. The Quilt has affected the lives of many people, bridging racial, sexual, and religious barriers to unite millions in the fight against AIDS.
Stitching a Revolution is a compelling, dramatic tale with a cast of memorable characters from all walks of life. At times uplifting, at times heartwrenching, this inspiring story reveals what it means to be human and how the power of love conquers all--even death.

Stitching a Revolution - The Making of an Activist

Biographies & Memoirs

Jones, Cleve

Dawson, Jeff

Leaders & Notable People

HarperOne

From the frontlines of one of the greatest human struggles of our time comes this powerful and moving tale. Both an important cultural history of the AIDS crisis and an intimate personal memoir, Stitching a Revolution is the story of a man who, besieged by discrimination, death, and despair, found the courage and strength of spirit to conceive and create a unique healing vision-the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Against the turbulent backdrop of politics and sexual liberation in San Francisco during the seventies, Jones recounts his coming-of-age alongside friend and mentor Harvey Milk -- and, later, Milk's assassination and the ensuing riots that threatened to tear down all they had accomplished. But Jones's political aspirations were put on hold after the emergence of an insidious, unexplainable "gay cancer" that would soon become known throughout the world as AIDS. Demoralized by the tide of death and despair sweeping his community, brutally assaulted by gay-bashing thugs, and faced with the specter of his own positive diagnosis, Jones sought a way to restore hope to a world falling apart beneath his feet.
What started out as a simple panel of fabric stitched for his best friend now covers a space larger than twenty-five football fields and contains over eighty thousand names. The Quilt has affected the lives of many people, bridging racial, sexual, and religious barriers to unite millions in the fight against AIDS.
Stitching a Revolution is a compelling, dramatic tale with a cast of memorable characters from all walks of life. At times uplifting, at times heartwrenching, this inspiring story reveals what it means to be human and how the power of love conquers all -- even death.

Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist

An updated gay and lesbian guide to the Internet describes more than three thousand sites available through the Web and BBSs across the country, covering such topics as gay adoption, legal issues, health care, dating, travel, chat rooms, and other topics of interest. Original.

Gay & Lesbian Online

Computers & Technology

Web Development & Design

Peachpit Pr

Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster

In November 1942, the Dunedin Star, a ship of Britain’s Blue Star Line, was bound for the Middle East, her consignment of munitions for the 8th Army supplemented by 21 civilians escaping the Blitz. Three weeks into her voyage, her hull mysteriously holed, the Dunedin Star ran aground off Namibia’s infamous Skeleton Coastthe most violent and desolate shore on earth. Sixty-three passengers were to defy unfathomable odds to reach landbut their struggle for survival had only just begun.

History

Africa

Orion Publishing

Using interviews with players involved, personal childhood recollections, and having studied hours of videotape, Jeff Dawson pieces together the events of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, inviting the reader to remember what it was like in England that glorious summer.

Back Home: England and the 1970 World Cup

Sports & Outdoors

Soccer

Gollancz

Phoenix

What ever happened to that fist love? How did their lives turn out? Do they ever think about the wonderful times we spent together? Those care-free days when the only thing that really mattered was walking hand in hand on long walks or hanging out with friends at the arcade. Do they remember the first date and the first kiss? Do they still remember us and what would happen if we were ever able to see each other again? Would the old feelings of the past be reignited, or would it be a simple hello, how have you been and we part paths again. I always wondered how her life had turned out. Through the years a business card would left in a mailbox with no return call, letter or email. I guess the memories would be just that, memories. But in December of 2008, it was worth one more shot. One more attempt to make contact with the one girl whose memory stay hidden. The one girl who no matter how far I traveled or how hard I tried to suppress the thoughts of the past, thoughts of her were always just under the surface waiting to reawaken. One more time, one more attempt, just one more time and if nothing happens, let her memories fade, never to surface again. It has been two weeks since the card was dropped off. Well, we gave it our best shot. We tried one more time and since their has been no contact, her memory is starting to fade. I take our prom picture out of my wallet and place it in a small box with all of the remaining reminders of our love from so long ago. The phone rings. Must be someone with more bad news about why they can't deliver the materials ordered. "This is Jeff"(what do you want!), "This is Debbie." My response was cold and quick, "And?" A very long pause, "Jeff.....this.....is.... Debbie." I slowly remove both feet from my mouth. It is her! The long lost connection has been made. Now what? Join us for the most intense seven month "true love" one could ever have dreamed. Travel back to high school when life was so easy, so care-free and the word worry didn't exist. The chance meetings at college that at times were better forgotten. To present day when we are both trying to figure out if the feelings from the past should remain in the past or is there still something there; unfinished business from the past. There is plenty of time(?) to figure it all out.

Love's True Second Chance

Memoirs

LDDJ Enterprises Publishingg

In 1989, the Irving Titans achieved an all time low of 1-15. They hadn’t been this bad since the team’s inception in the '60’s. The glory days of NFC Championships and Super Bowls were a distant memory. That was about to change as the collapse of the Savings and Loans scandal would force the current owner, Bum Reason to sell the storied franchise to unknown billionaire oilman, Reuben Weitzman who promised the Titan faithful he would rebuild the team and make it, the dominant force in the NFL To accomplish this he would have to release the Titan’s beloved head coach, Steve Osborn and replace him with one of his old college classmates and the current top collegiate coach, Marshall Jankowski. What he couldn’t imagine is how his lifelong dream of owning the Titans would propel him and the team back into the limelight on more than one front: Super Bowls, scandals, sex and a long awaited reckoning from the one gal who can bring the whole regime down, Charlene Rivers. Prepare yourselves for the most raucous, rambunctious, risqué ride in sports history!

Irving Titans

Football (American)

LDDJ Enterprises Publishing

Thoroughly updated to incorporate the latest web sites, a comprehensive guide to the Internet for gays and lesbians presents sites dealing with AIDS, legal issues, politics, activism, chat rooms, sex, religion and spirituality, dating, and much more. Original. IP.

Gay & Lesbian Online, 3rd Edition: Your Indispensable Guide to Cruising the Queer Web

Alyson Books

"An indispensable tool for Net 'newbies' who may need guidance in the digital domain . . . could cause information junkies to log on for interminable hours." That's how The Washington Blade has described Gay &amp; Lesbian Online. Encyclopedic in scope, Gay &amp; Lesbian Online charts the entire spectrum of gay and lesbian interests found in the ever-growing digital world of the Internet. Join the exploding queer presence in cyberspace with this user-friendly, incredibly detailed, and enormously entertaining manual for people of all levels of computer skill.
Jeff Dawson has written for Macworld, The Net and MacHome Journal. He lives in Northern California.

Gay & Lesbian Online, 5th Edition: Your Indispensable Guide to Cruising the Queer Web

Advocate Books

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Dawson, Jeff. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Dawson, Jeff

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Dawson, Jeff. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Stitching a Revolution - The Making of an Activist

Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist

Gay & Lesbian Online

Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster

Back Home: England and the 1970 World Cup

Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster

Love's True Second Chance

Irving Titans

Gay & Lesbian Online, 3rd Edition: Your Indispensable Guide to Cruising the Queer Web

Gay & Lesbian Online, 5th Edition: Your Indispensable Guide to Cruising the Queer Web