• When We Rise is an eight-part American docudrama miniseries about the history of LGBT rights advocacy in the United States from the 1970s to the 2010s...
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    in 2016. Majors secured his first onscreen role in the ABC miniseries When We Rise while still a student at Yale. In the series, Majors portrayed real-life...
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    portraying transgender activist Cecilia Chung in the 2017 miniseries When We Rise. Aquino was born in the Philippines. She knew from a very young age that...
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    Holistic Detective Agency (2016–2017) , as Diane Jones in ABC miniseries When We Rise (2017), and Dr. Cassie McKay in the Max medical drama The Pitt (2025)...
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    the FX comedy-drama series Better Things (2016), the ABC miniseries When We Rise (2017), the CBS crime drama series Criminal Minds (2017), and the ABC...
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    the 2017 ABC miniseries When We Rise. Fisher has performed at numerous WE Day concerts across the United States, to benefit WE Charity. His single "Mess"...
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    had a cameo as Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in the TV miniseries When We Rise. The same year, she starred in her first romantic lead after many years...
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  • sings an original song. In 2017, McKenzie starred in the ABC miniseries When We Rise, created by Dustin Lance Black and Gus Van Sant. He portrays the young...
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    biographical war drama Hacksaw Ridge, and in the docudrama miniseries When We Rise, written by Dustin Lance Black. Onstage, Griffiths appeared in a Melbourne-based...
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    in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife (2014–2015), the ABC docu-drama When We Rise (2017), and the HBO Max series Julia (2022–23). Besides his performance...
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    political LGBT activist in the Academy Award-winner Dustin Lance Black's When We Rise (2017), directed by Gus Van Sant. DeLorenzo is a director and a member...
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    television appearances include the role of Richard on the ABC miniseries When We Rise, the role of Tim Powell on Tell Me a Story, and the role of Rob Stanton...
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    Bad Asses, and I Am Michael. Carver appeared in the ABC miniseries When We Rise in 2017. The production traced the history of the LGBTQ rights movement...
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    2016, McHale joined the cast of Dustin Lance Black's drama miniseries When We Rise as AIDS activist Bobbi Campbell. In December 2020, McHale was a part...
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    In 2017, she played the role of activist Roma Guy (when young) in ABC's miniseries When We Rise (2017). The eight-part series is about the LGBT civil...
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    Monsters (2013), Terminator Genisys (2015), Vinyl, Miss Sloane (both 2016), When We Rise (2017), The Alienist (2018–2020) and the second season of HBO's Big Little...
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  • appeared as Cleve Jones' boyfriend Ricardo Canto in the ABC miniseries When We Rise. In 2017 and 2018, he appeared in the films ¡He matado a mi marido! and...
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    San Francisco, Calif., as part of the Dustin Lance Black mini-series When We Rise. Her appearance in the show highlighted the reputed compassion of the...
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    interview was based on Jones's book, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement, and the television program When We Rise, broadcast in February and March 2017...
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  • participated in since leaving the ska-punk band Catch 22. The track "If and When We Rise Again" quotes the melody of Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Johannes Brahms...
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    life story was one of four main storylines in the 2017 ABC miniseries When We Rise about LGBT rights in the 1970s and 1980s. Cecilia was born in Hong Kong...
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  • docudrama series Untold Stories of the E.R., followed by Project Mc2 and When We Rise in 2017, Garage Sale Mystery in 2018, and BH90210 in 2019. He landed...
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  • Fire and Fox's Empire, as well the show Code Black and the mini-series When We Rise. Saclao, Christian (December 18, 2016). "'Eyewitness' Actor Tyler Young...
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    (March 2, 2017). "Dustin Lance Black, the Screenwriter Behind "Milk" and "When We Rise," on Coming Out As a Gay Activist". The New Yorker. Archived from the...
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    written and directed episodes for television series including Empire, When We Rise, and Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams. Rees is the first African-American...
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    directed by Nora Ephron. For television, Mark was an executive producer of When We Rise, the limited series created and written by Dustin Lance Black and starring...
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  • States. Guy is featured in ABC's miniseries about LGBT rights, titled When We Rise (2017).Emily Skeggs plays the young Roma Guy and Mary-Louise Parker plays...
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  • Sarabande. n.d. Retrieved March 1, 2020. "Soundtrack Album for ABC's 'When We Rise' Announced". Film Music Reporter. February 9, 2017. Retrieved September...
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  • Squad (France) When the Boat Comes In (UK) When Calls the Heart When Games Attack When They See Us When Things Were Rotten When We Rise Where Are They...
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    the English rock band Ten Years After for the television miniseries When We Rise. In December 2018 Diamond joined the Human Rights Campaign's Equality...
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