When We Rise

About When We Rise

The personal and political struggles, setbacks and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S.

When We Rise is a drama series made for ABC. Its one season of 4 episodes aired between February 2017 and March 2017.

Austin P. McKenzie stars as Young Cleve Jones, Emily Skeggs as Young Roma Guy, Jonathan Majors as Young Ken Jones, and Fiona Dourif as Young Diane Jones.

Shelv files it under lesbian, civil rights, miniseries, and LGBT. In the United States it streams on Hulu.

Fingersmith, DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, and The L Word make useful companions to When We Rise.