Nancy Pelosi emotionally reflects on LGBTQ+ community at Library of Congress AIDS Quilt exhibit (exclusive)
The speaker emerita got choked up as she reviewed letters from families of people lost to AIDS.
JUNE 18, 2024
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Cleve Jones Responds: Letter to the Editor
Disheartened by writer James Kirchick's recent commentary 'A Friend to Gays and Antigay Dictators Alike,' Cleve Jones writes a letter to the editor in support of his friend Sean Penn, a man he says is a "tireless champion of human rights both in the U.S. and around the world."
DECEMBER 13, 2008
A Birthday Message to Harvey Milk, From Cleve Jones
On what would have been Harvey Milk's 86th birthday, his former colleague and close friend shares his thoughts on the man and his legacy.
MAY 22, 2016
Cleve Jones: Unions Have Our Backs and We Need to Return the Favor
The legendary activist is fighting for UNITE HERE's members and asking LGBTQ people to help if they can.
APRIL 23, 2020
Op-ed: A Call for Protests Outside Supreme Court
As the Supreme Court considers marriage equality for the first time, activists Cleve Jones and David Mixner call for demonstrations in March.
JANUARY 30, 2013
Dear White LGBT People, Prove Black Lives Matter
Activists Cleve Jones and Liz Highleyman on the ways white LGBT people can do their part to end an HIV crisis in the black community.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Op-ed: Dear Gay Ambassadors, Be Straight About Trade Deal
Activists Cleve Jones and Jerame Davis ask: Why are America's out ambassadors arguing in favor of giving special 'favored nation' status to virulently anti-LGBT countries, including one that stones gays to death?
JUNE 11, 2015
Cleve Jones: Why I’ll Be at Starbucks' Shareholder Meeting
The coffee giant is failing its LGBTQ workers, says the longtime activist.
MARCH 3, 2020
Cleve Jones on What Gayborhoods Will Look Like After COVID-19
LGBTQ+ neighborhoods were already dying. Activist icon Cleve Jones discusses how the pandemic will continue to transform them.
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Ken Jones, Pioneering Black Gay Activist, Dies at 70
The activist and deacon, who was depicted in When We Rise, was honored by his longtime friend Cleve Jones.
JANUARY 15, 2021
Op-ed: Don't Let Harvey Milk Down
On what would have been Milk's 85th birthday, Cleve Jones says the civil rights leader would want us to work harder for equality.
MAY 22, 2015
'When We Rise' Part Three: Hillary, Heartbreak, and HIV
Creator Dustin Lance Black discussed the show's third night, including why he included archival footage of a "heartbreaking" cameo and the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
MARCH 2, 2017
The Bullhorn of Harvey Milk and Cleve Jones Displayed at Smithsonian
One of the most familiar emblems from the early days of the gay rights movement is now in the Smithsonian Museum: Harvey Milk’s bullhorn.
MAY 21, 2018
Cleve Jones Is Here to Recruit You — to Help Stop the GOP
The legendary activist says it's all hands on deck for November.
JULY 21, 2022
Cleve Jones: This Labor Day, Remember Unions Have Our Back
The civil rights icon talks about his work with UNITE HERE, and how unions like this lift us all up.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2017
7 Ways To Resist This Week
A book by gay activist Cleve Jones, a rally against Breitbart, and an ABC series on immigration are this week's highlights.
MARCH 10, 2017