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You can stream When We Rise (2017) on Hulu with a subscription.

The personal and political struggles, setbacks and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today. The period piece tells the history of the gay rights movement, starting with the Stonewall Riots in 1969.

Can a fractured group of activists turn a fringe movement into a national revolution? This chronicle tracks the grueling, decades-long battle for equality through the eyes of those who refused to be invisible.