Episode

When We Rise: Part II

Name: When We Rise: Part II
Released: 2017-03-01
Duration: 87 min
Cast: Austin P. McKenzie, Emily Skeggs, Jonathan Majors, Fiona Dourif, Rachel Griffiths

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Overview

Ken, Cleve, and Roma fight an initiative that would ban gays from working in California public schools, while Cleve works on the campaign to elect Harvey Milk as San Francisco City Supervisor. But soon a disease starts killing gay men all over the country.

Details

Series: When We Rise
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 2
Air date: 2017-03-01
Runtime: 87 min

Episode context

Part II is Episode 2 in Season 1 of When We Rise. It aired on 2017-03-01. The runtime is 87 min.

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Episode 1: Part I 2017-02-27 | 87 min A young peace activist escapes his repressive life in Phoenix and heads to San Francisco, hoping to find refuge and community, but finds that the struggle for survival is just as difficult as it was back home. Elsewhere, NOW purges lesbians from its ranks.

Episode 3: Part III 2017-03-02 | 87 min AIDS continues to ravage the gay community. Cleve creates the AIDS quilt in order to get the President's attention, while Diane's daughter Annie struggles with her identity as the child of a lesbian couple and a gay man.

More episodes from this season

Episode 4: Part IV 2017-03-03 | 87 min An energized Cleve inspires a group of young activists to organize a march on Washington to demand full LGBTQ civil rights, while Roma uses her skills to reform healthcare in San Francisco. Elsewhere, a group forms to try overturning California's discriminatory proposition banning gay marriage.