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When We Rise Parts 1 and 2 Review (2017x67)
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When We Rise Parts 1 and 2 are reviewed by Alonso Duralde (TheWrap and Linoleum Knife podcast), Grace Baldridge (Pop Trigger) and Jason Carter (Pop Trigger).
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Part 1 - The miniseries about a diverse family of LGBTQ people who helped pioneer the equality movement in the U.S. begins with the social-justice fighters moving to San Francisco after coming out or being outed. There, they join the fledgling LGBTQ movement and set out to change the world.
Part 2 - In 1978, Cleve, Ken and Roma work together to fight Proposition 6, which would ban gays, lesbians, and their allies from working in California public schools. Later, in 1981, a disease dubbed "gay cancer" begins taking the lives of gay men and IV drug users.
The LGBT civil-rights movement is chronicled from its turbulent infancy to the present through the experiences of a diverse family of LGBT men and women.
Read more - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/when_we_rise/s01/