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when we risespotlight It’s one of the main reasons I hope other artists


make more LGBT cinema and television shows and write more books, so our history isn’t buried. We have such a richness there, but publishers haven’t leapt to publish books in a way that reaches the local library, or studios haven’t green lit enough movies and television shows that talk about our history in a way that makes it accessible in a popularized fashion. Places that a young LGBT person, born to heterosexual families, can go online and download a film or TV show to help understand there are people out there like them, that this is where I come from and why we are where we are. What was your primary agenda when you were assembling this? To tell the activists’ stories, or was it more about putting the gay rights movement in a historical context? I’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating.


When I wrote Milk, I very much wrote it for a younger version of me. I wrote a movie I wish I could have seen when I was 14, 15 or 16-years-old, one that would have given me some hope.When We Rise, I wrote not just for my LGBTQ family, I also wrote it for my Southern, Christian, conservative, military family. Coming from that America, I understand you can come to the table with all facts, have the law and science on your side and preach about it for days and not change a single thing. If you want to change something, especially in the South, you must tell a story…And It had better be a family story and an emotional one. Then, you might change a heart and if you change a heart, you might change a mind. Timing is everything and the universe works in such mysterious ways. ThatWhen We Rise is appearing at this moment in history, is truly stunning. I never could have predicted how necessary the


series could be and would give anything for it to not be…But, here we are. I can’t say I’m completely surprised. As a student of history and as an activist myself, I’ve watched with concerned as many minority groups that I care about, seem to be working far too independently. It was Nero who said, “Divide and conquer” and I’m afraid that is what’s happened. Part of the motivation for doing this series and calling itWhen We Rise and my insisting those who were active in it weren’t just in the LGBT movement, but came from the women’s movement and the Civil Rights and Peace Movements, is that we would eventually discuss issues of immigration


History is not a


straight line and it never has been. It is a pendulum and our job, as people of diversity, is to make sure it doesn’t swing too far back.”


— dustin lance black


and health care, which I can’t believe how topical it’s about to become. It was important to me that we were discussing the intersectionality of these movements and how necessary it is that we work together. Not only necessary, but vital. History is not a straight line and it never has been. It is


a pendulum and our job, as people of diversity, is to make sure it doesn’t swing too far back. The thing I keep saying time and again, is thanks to technology, we are aware that every single person on this planet is a minority in one way or another. It just depends on how you slice the pie. So, the job is to identify our interconnectedness and push back to make sure it’s a fair and equal world. It is all our jobs.


The history lesson begins in February. HOW WILL YOU RISE?


When We Risepremieres on ABC, runningMonday, February 27 through Friday, March 3. Well, sort of… Ironically, thanks to a recently scheduled Congressional address by President Donald Trump, ABC was forced to modify its schedule. The series will take a break on Tuesday, February 28 to air his address, pushing back the next three installments ofWhen We Riseby a day. Serendipitous, wouldn’t you say?


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