Claim: Mary-Louise Parker appeared.

When We Rise is an American docudrama miniseries about LGBT Rights , created by Dustin Lance Black . It stars Guy Pearce , Rachel Griffiths , Mary-Louise Parker , Michael Kenneth Williams , Austin P. McKenzie , Emily Skeggs , Jonathan Majors , Fiona Dourif , and Sam Jaeger among 30 others . The mini-series premiered on ABC on February 27 , 2017 , as a sequence of nightly broadcasts .