He went on to say, 'This current moment is so important because the struggle for LGBTQ people is irrevocably linked to the larger movement for civil rights.'
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'I think that June has the potential to remind all the different kinds of people who call themselves LGBTQ that we do need each other,' said Cleve Jones, co-founder of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.