When We Rise Episode 1.04 Part IV
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When We Rise Episode 1.04 Part IV

Episode Premiere
Mar 3, 2017
Genre
Drama
Production Company
ABC Studios
Official Site
http://www.abc.go.com/shows/when-we-rise
Episode Premiere
Mar 3, 2017
Genre
Drama
Period
2017 - 2017
Production Co
ABC Studios
Distributor
ABC
Official Site
http://www.abc.go.com/shows/when-we-rise
Director
Dustin Lance Black
Screenwriter
Dustin Lance Black
Main Cast
Additional Cast

Mini-series finale -- It's 2008, and in the face of California's Proposition 8 stripping away the right of gays and lesbians to marry, a newly energized Cleve inspires a younger generation to organize a massive march on Washington D.C. to demand full, federal LGBTQ equality in all matters.

Meanwhile Roma uses her lessons learned as a women's and LGBTQ activist to fight for healthcare for all in San Francisco. And as Ken struggles to reconcile his sexual orientation with his love of God, he recruits his old friend Cecilia Chung, now a health commissioner, to get the city to help fund a meal program for one of the first LGBTQ inclusive churches in the nation.

With newfound political pull, Cleve joins a rag-tag group of activists attempting to overturn California's discriminatory Prop 8 at the U.S. Supreme Court. Ken finds his calling in helping bridge the gay/straight religious divide, and Roma defies her youthful distaste for the institution of marriage and proposes to the woman she's loved for decades, Diane. In the end, all of their fates hang on the decision of nine justices in the nation's highest court,