Like thousands of other young people, Jones, nearly penniless, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. “You could read Cleve Jones’s book because you should know about the struggle for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights from one of its key participants-maybe heroes-but really, you should read it for pleasure and joy.”-Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Meīorn in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself.
