When We Rise (2017) and the fight against Homophobia in Brazil

Critical film review of the American television series When We Rise. From the methodology of Cinematherapy, important and historical points are listed and analyzed in the light of the theories of sexuality and gender. Launched in January 2017, it runs through landmark events for the LGBT movement in the United States and shows how prejudice and homophobia have been institutionalized in the actions of culture, institutions and politics. In view of the current times in Brazil, the series comes together with the pertinence of discussing the presence of the theme in schools, as well as alerting to the fact that society has boycotted, through ignorance and fear, the presentation to be made in a systematized way, frank and unprejudiced in classrooms in elementary schools.