Cleve Jones - December 2nd

Join the Kennedy Political Union on December 2nd, from 8:15pm to 11:00pm as Cleve Jones speaks in Ward 1.

Cleve Jones began his career as an activist in San Francisco during the turbulent 1970s, when he was befriended by pioneer gay rights leader Harvey Milk.

Cleve worked as a student intern in Milk’s office until the famed gay rights activist and leader was assassinated in 1978. After Milk’s assassination, he began working as a legislative consultant and was then elected to three terms on the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee, also serving on local and state commissions for juvenile justice and delinquency prevention and the Mission Mental Health Community Advisory Board. One of the first to recognize the threat of AIDS, Cleve co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983.

In 1985, at a candlelight memorial for Harvey Milk, Cleve conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Since then, the AIDS Memorial Quilt has grown to become the world’s largest community arts project, memorializing the lives of over 85,000 Americans killed by AIDS.

He has served as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Harvard AIDS Institute, the National Board of Governors of Project Inform and the Board of Directors of the Foundation for AIDS and Immune Research.

Cosponsored by the GLBTA Resource Center, AU Queers and Allies, Women’s Initiative, the Wellness Center, College Democrats, and the Student Government.