![]() ![]() The miniseries of the same name, from Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and executive producer Gus Van Sant, is due to air in February.Ĭafé Flore is one of Jones’ habitual haunts-the book sequence in which he learns of Milk’s murder by fellow supervisor Dan White commences with him seated at a nearby table. ![]() His memoir, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement, is an ambrosial read, masterfully interweaving major historical events with juicy personal details of romance and heartbreak. A moving remembrance of those who died, the quilt became the largest piece of folk art ever created. In the 1980s, as the gay community was decimated by the AIDS epidemic, Jones launched the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Jones arrived in San Francisco in the 1970s as a teenager and was taken under the wing of the late Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor. “When I came up with, everyone told me it was the stupidest idea they’d ever heard.” ![]()
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