“When We Rise”: History Of Gay Rights
THR says: ‘The 84-minute first chapter of “When We Rise” premiered on Thursday (January 12) night at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, a likely place to witness the unveiling of a new piece of activist storytelling from Milk collaborators Dustin Lance Black and Gus Van Sant — the duo that made “Milk.” That premiere is the only part of When We Rise that I can review here, but the entire eight-hour miniseries will actually air on ABC starting on February 27, and network TV is a much less likely place to encounter an epic history of the gay rights movement…Even in 2017, when we like to think that boundaries have been pushed a fair amount and that the voices being heard are as diverse as ever, When We Rise feels like a rather astounding thing to find on network TV.’
