Cleve Jones
I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Cleve Jones, one of the leaders of the first wave of gay rights activists. He himself was a victim of a terrible hate crime and almost died.
He was him in the shoulder walking him and fell over. Then, the attackers kicked him on the ground and held a knife up to his throat, acting as though they were going to slit it. The blade bumped off his chin, but as he stood him he realized the first blow had been with a knife. He crawled back to his apartment and passed out in front of the mailboxes. If it weren’t for his neighbor realizing he forgot to get his mail earlier that day, Jones would have bled to death.
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