1. Cleve Jones was born on October 11,1954 and is an American AIDS and LGBT rights activist.
20 Facts About Cleve Jones
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Cleve Jones conceived the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, which has become, at 54 tons, the world's largest piece of community folk art as of 2020.
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In 1983 at the onset of the AIDS pandemic, Jones co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, which has grown into one of the largest and most influential advocacy organizations empowering people with AIDS in the United States.
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Cleve Jones moved with his family to Scottsdale, Arizona, when he was 14 and was a student at Arizona State University for a time.
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Cleve Jones claimed he never really accepted the Phoenix area as his home.
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Cleve Jones's father was a psychologist and his mother was a Quaker, a faith she held at least in part to benefit her son in the era of the draft for the Vietnam War.
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Cleve Jones worked as a student intern in Milk's office while studying political science at San Francisco State University.
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In 1981, Cleve Jones went to work in the district office of State Assemblyman Art Agnos.
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In 1982, when AIDS was still a new and largely underestimated threat, Cleve Jones co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, then called the Kaposi's Sarcoma Research and Education Foundation, with Marcus Conant, Frank Jacobson, and Richard Keller.
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Cleve Jones conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at a candlelight memorial for Harvey Milk in 1985 and in 1987 created the first quilt panel in honor of his friend Marvin Feldman.
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Cleve Jones ran for a position on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the November 3,1992 election.
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Cleve Jones has been working with UNITE HERE, the hotel, restaurant, and garment workers' labor union on homophobia issues.
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Cleve Jones is a driving force behind the Sleep With The Right People campaign, which aims to convince LGBT tourists to stay only in hotels that respect the rights of their workers.
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Cleve Jones is portrayed by actor Emile Hirsch in Milk, director Gus Van Sant's 2008 biopic of Harvey Milk.
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Cleve Jones is prominently featured in And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts's best-selling 1987 work of non-fiction about the AIDS epidemic in the United States.
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Cleve Jones was featured in the 1995 documentary film The Castro.
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Cleve Jones was one of the Official Grand Marshals of the 2009 NYC LGBT Pride March, produced by Heritage of Pride joining Dustin Lance Black and Anne Kronenberg on June 28,2009.
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Cleve Jones participated as an actor in the Los Angeles premiere of 8, a condensed theatrical re-enactment of the Perry v Schwarzenegger trial's closure, on March 3,2012.
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Cleve Jones is portrayed by actors Austin P McKenzie and Guy Pearce in the 2017 ABC television miniseries When We Rise, directed by Gus Van Sant.
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Cleve Jones had a cameo appearance playing himself in Looking: The Movie in 2016.