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When We Rise: Full Cast & Crew 2017 History/Drama/LGBTQ+
Academy-Award winner Dustin Lance Black executive produces this miniseries chronicling the real-life personal and political struggles, setbacks, and triumphs of diverse LGBT activists who played integral roles in pioneering their leg of the U.S. civil rights movement from its infancy. The story focuses on AIDS and LGBT rights champion Cleve Jones, women's rights leader Roma Guy and her wife, Diane, African-American community organizer Ken Jones, and transgender activist Celia Chung, following them from the Stonewall riots in 1969 through the AIDS epidemic of the '80s and beyond. TV-14 Air Date: Feb 27, 2017 See TV Series Details

Cast & Crew

All Cast Crew
Guy Pearce Cleve Jones Actor Mary-Louise Parker Roma Guy Actor Rachel Griffiths Diane Guy Actor Michael Kenneth Williams Ken Jones Actor Austin P. McKenzie Younger Cleve Jones Actor Jonathan Majors Younger Ken Jones Actor Emily Skeggs Younger Roma Guy Actor Fiona Dourif Younger Diane Actor Dustin Lance Black Executive Producer Laurence Mark Executive Producer Bruce Cohen Executive Producer Gus Van Sant Executive Producer