When We Rise

Portrays a cause bringing different people together to create social change. While some of the outcomes of the protests are ambiguous or seem negative -- police crackdowns causing physical harm, Harvey Milk's assassination, strained relationships -- the situations are thought-provoking and imply that change is happening, despite setbacks.

Use of billy clubs, tear gas, and physical force by police to break up protests. One young character is threatened by a group of young men with a knife and beat up. Verbal hostility toward men by women who did not think men should participate in the women's rights movement and toward lesbian and heterosexual women in the women's rights movement. The assassination of Harvey Milk. Discussion of war violence and depiction of bombs exploding from a ship onto a shore. One of the character's love interests is killed on a Navy ship in an explosion.

"Dyke," "faggot," "balls."