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When We Rise

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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.
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Season 1 82% 2017 Details

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Guy Pearce

Cleve Jones

Mary-Louise Parker

Roma Guy

Rachel Griffiths

Diane Guy

Michael Kenneth Williams

Ken Jones

Austin P. McKenzie

Younger Cleve Jones

Jonathan Majors

Younger Ken Jones

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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