'When We Rise' Premiere: How To Live Stream Premiere Of ABC Gay Rights Drama [VIDEO]
LGBT rights miniseries When We Rise premieres Monday night on ABC, and here's how you can watch it online.
When We Rise has received a lot of press coverage and advertising, especially during Sunday night's Oscars. The miniseries explores civil rights for the LGBT community in the '60s, particularly the Stonewall riots. It stars Guy Pearce as LGBT activist Cleve Jones, Carrie Preston as Sally Gearhart, Mary-Louise Parker as Roma Guy, Rachel Griffiths as Diane, Michael K. Williams as Ken Jones, Kevin McHale as Bobbi Campbell, Whoopi Goldberg as Pat Norman, Rosie O'Donnell as Del Martin and many more.
"Viewers meet Cleve Jones, a young Quaker activist who escapes his repressive life in Phoenix and heads to San Francisco in hopes of finding refuge and joining the peace movement," reads the ABC synopsis, "Ken Jones, an African-American sailor in the United States Navy who is reassigned from Vietnam to San Francisco to spearhead a new military desegregation program; Roma Guy, a dedicated member of the women's movement who has not fully come to terms with her own sexuality. When NOW purges lesbians from its ranks, Roma moves to San Francisco and dedicates herself to opening the first women's center in the country run by women, for women. Diane, a nurse and social activist whom Roma met in the Peace Corps in Africa also moves to San Francisco to join the women's movement."
In tonight's premiere, which is two hours long, "as these idealistic social-justice fighters come out or are outed, they are forced from their jobs, their movements and their homes, and must escape to San Francisco in hopes of finding safe harbor. When their hopes turn to disappointment, they join the fledgling LGBTQ movement and together, locked arm in arm, set out to change the world."
The premiere of When We Rise begins at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC. It is also available to live stream at ABC.com in select markets.
To live tweet and follow along with others watching the premiere of When We Rise, use hashtag #WhenWeRise on Twitter.
