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). https://twitter.com/ADuralde https://twitter.com/GraceBaldridge https://twitter.com/jjcforever 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/