Keep Singing: Two Mothers, Two Sons and Their Fight Against Jesse Helms Patsy Clarke, et al Paperback - 200 pages (30 April, 2001) Alyson Publications Inc.,U.S.; ISBN: 1555835724

"A COMPELLING STORY OF PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION EFFECTED THROUGH THE FORCES OF LOVE IN THE FACE OF LOSS, OF RIGHTEOUS ANGER IN THE FACE OF CALLOUS POWER."
—Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain
"The stories Patsy and Eloise tell are heartbreaking, HEROIC, AND COURAGEOUS. THEY EXEMPLIFY EVERYTHING A LOVING, SUPPORTIVE MOTHER SHOULD BE. IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO KNOW THEM AND TO READ THEIR STORIES."
—Betty DeGeneres, author of just a Mom
Keep Singing is the inspiring story of Eloise Vaughn and Patsy Clarke, two women who became the unlikeliest of activists and gave a new face to the fight against bigotry and hatred. In 1995, after having each lost a son to AIDS and after failing to persuade the notoriously homophobic senator Jesse Helms to soften his antigay stance, the two women formed Mothers Against Jesse in Congress to drive him from office. Their journey would carry them from their quiet North Carolina homes to the stage of the 1996 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Their battle would put their names and faces in the pages of People magazine and The New York Times. And their lives would be changed forever, driven now by the desire that even in death their children would be given the simple human respect that is due everyone.
"Patsy Clarke and Eloise Vaughn are heroes who sought to slay the dragon. They succeeded ONLY IN WOUNDING HIM, BUT HISTORY WILL ULTIMATELY COMPLETE THEIR TASK."
—John Shelby Spong, author of Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love & Equality

Paperback, Very good condition