Well this was magic. Reading this and then watching the related miniseries - Cleve Jones, though I'm sure he'd play it down, comes across as a real hero for the gay community.  However, as important as this is, this memoir deals with a much wider canvas than just the fight from the aids crisis onwards as Jones deliberately chooses to build the work around his life and experiences before that to show the joy and life he lived and fought for.  

The slight twist on this though is that the narrative really comes into its own in terms of interest and power when dealing with AIDS and Proposition 8 and the movement, though the rest of it really helps build a sense of who Cleve Jones was/is as a person and how he got there - it doesn't carry quite the same weight, especially once one has seen how the telly version has adapted what we've got.

Over all though, hell yeah read this and learn, laugh, cry and other such things.