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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

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Season 1

  • Part III
    8.3/10341 votes

    Part III

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/2/2017

    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.

    Director: Thomas Schlamme

    Writer: Peter Parnell, Derek Simonds

  • Part IV
    8.3/10336 votes

    Part IV

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/3/2017

    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.

    Director: Dustin Lance Black

    Writer: Dustin Lance Black

  • Part II
    8.1/10389 votes

    Part II

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/1/2017

    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.

    Director: Dee Rees

    Writer: Dustin Lance Black, Dianne Houston, Lisa Zwerling

  • Part I
    7.9/10449 votes

    Part I

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/27/2017

    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.

    Director: Gus Van Sant

    Writer: Dustin Lance Black