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When We Rise

TV-14 2017 1 Season History Drama LGBTQ+ List
82% Avg. Tomatometer 34 Reviews 79% Avg. Audience Score 50+ Ratings
Academy-Award winner Dustin Lance Black executive produces this miniseries chronicling the real-life personal and political struggles, setbacks, and triumphs of diverse LGBT activists who played integral roles in pioneering their leg of the U.S. civil rights movement from its infancy. The story focuses on AIDS and LGBT rights champion Cleve Jones, women's rights leader Roma Guy and her wife, Diane, African-American community organizer Ken Jones, and transgender activist Celia Chung, following them from the Stonewall riots in 1969 through the AIDS epidemic of the '80s and beyond. Read More Read Less
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Synopsis Academy-Award winner Dustin Lance Black executive produces this miniseries chronicling the real-life personal and political struggles, setbacks, and triumphs of diverse LGBT activists who played integral roles in pioneering their leg of the U.S. civil rights movement from its infancy. The story focuses on AIDS and LGBT rights champion Cleve Jones, women's rights leader Roma Guy and her wife, Diane, African-American community organizer Ken Jones, and transgender activist Celia Chung, following them from the Stonewall riots in 1969 through the AIDS epidemic of the '80s and beyond.
Executive Producer
Dustin Lance Black, Laurence Mark, Bruce Cohen, Gus Van Sant
Network
ABC
Rating
TV-14
Genre
History, Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language
English
Release Date
Feb 27, 2017