About
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.
Cast
Austin P. McKenzie
as Young Cleve Jones
Emily Skeggs
as Young Roma Guy
Jonathan Majors
as Young Ken Jones
Fiona Dourif
as Young Diane Jones
Rachel Griffiths
as Diane Jones
Mary-Louise Parker
as Roma Guy
Guy Pearce
as Cleve Jones
Michael Kenneth Williams
as Ken Jones
Ivory Aquino
as Cecilia Chung
Debra Winger
as Elena Kagan
David Hyde Pierce
as Dr. Jones
Whoopi Goldberg
as Pat Norman
Rosie O'Donnell
as Del Martin
Seasons
Episodes
Season 1
Part I
A young peace activist escapes his repressive life in Phoenix and heads to San Francisco, hoping to find refuge and community, but finds that the struggle for survival is just as difficult as it was back home. Elsewhere, NOW purges lesbians from its ranks.
Part II
Ken, Cleve, and Roma fight an initiative that would ban gays from working in California public schools, while Cleve works on the campaign to elect Harvey Milk as San Francisco City Supervisor. But soon a disease starts killing gay men all over the country.
Part III
AIDS continues to ravage the gay community. Cleve creates the AIDS quilt in order to get the President's attention, while Diane's daughter Annie struggles with her identity as the child of a lesbian couple and a gay man.
Part IV
An energized Cleve inspires a group of young activists to organize a march on Washington to demand full LGBTQ civil rights, while Roma uses her skills to reform healthcare in San Francisco. Elsewhere, a group forms to try overturning California's discriminatory proposition banning gay marriage.
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