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When We Rise

When We Rise

Description: 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.
Genre: Docudrama
Year Released: 2017
First episode air date: February 27, 2017
Awards: GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series
Network: American Broadcasting Company
Program Creator: Dustin Lance Black
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