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

September 1, 1939, the unimaginable happens. WAR! Germany invades Poland from the West. Two weeks later, Russia honors her agreement with Germany and invades from the East. Poland has no chance. By the end of September, Poland has been conquered. Or has it?In the towns of Krakow and Tarnow all is still business as usual. While the villagers fear for their lives, the Romanov's and Boirarsky's worry little of the new flags hoisted in their respective areas. They have seen many empires come and go. The Czars, Napoleon, Lenin, Hindenburg and others. They never cared who was in power as long as the food supply was intact. But that was about to change. The Germans had plans for all sub-humans; relocation. If you weren't of true Nordic Aryan genealogy, then they considered those races and people a drag on the new order and its limited resources.The plan of relocation was going to awaken an opponent that only resided in nightmares from childhood stories and tales from the past.

Occupation

Literature & Fiction

LDDJ Enterprises Pusblishing

Who shot JFK? What happened to Judas Iscariot? Did we land on the moon? These are the question facing our tepid graduates as they travel through the chronicles of time. \nOur group Judith, Larry, Abdul and Muki, strike-out for Vegas to enjoy the fruits of their labors. For the last six years they have crammed the books and graduated with double masters. It is time to take a break and relax.\nTheir luck at the tables is uncanny and doesn't go unnoticed by some of the local mob guys. They decide to make sure "what comes to Vegas, stays in Vegas." \nAs they crank the radio and exit Vegas with over $100,000, the local mob is in hot pursuit. When the kids realize they're being followed a chase ensues through the small town of Pioche, NV. They lose the would be pursuers and find themselves in the middle of an abandoned military complex. Or is it?

Gateway: Pioche

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Welch, Larry

Science Fiction

LDDJ Enterprises Publishing

Muki, Abdul, Judith and Larry endured a harrowing thirteen days in the bowels of the Pioche Complex with Professor Leonoid Skorzenzy. Relieved they survived the adventure, will they be able to resume the summer vacation they originally started out on or will the events of the past continue to haunt them? And what of Nathan Francisco? Will he allow the kids to leave the confines of Nevada unscathed or will he make sure they never enjoy their new found fortune? Did the message Judith deliver to General McCulloch reach the appropriate authorities, or is there something more sinister infecting the US GOVERNMENT? Strap yourselves in for the continuing adventures!

Destination D.C.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

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