I knew what I had to do.
Not as an individual but as part of my generation, Cleve tells the interviewer.
When did you know you had to rise up?
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Oh, pay attention.
It wasnt just me that heard the call.
It was all of us.
No one wants to get old in Phoenix, after all.
She still thinks he should tell his parents, though, because hiding love cant help anything.
Neither can hooking up in a church.
The San Francisco Police Department takes that to heart.
Cleve moves along and finds himself following another gay man to a tree house in the woods.
And no, thats not a metaphor for anything.
He even befriends an up-and-coming disco singer, Sylvester (Justin Sams).
However, Scott is saving up to leave for Morocco… then India, then the Middle East.
Anywhere he could possibly go to find the real San Francisco.
But Cleve refuses to give a shot to fix something thats not broken.
He also protested at Stonewall.
In fact, even though hes never been arrested before, he look(s) forward to it.
Unfortunately, Cleves meeting with Foster is disheartening, as Foster cant see past appearances in this fight.
What have you done except for make some noise and smoke weed?
Tomi asks if Cleve is registered to vote.
The rest is history.
Thats all I can carry, she tells Diane.
I cant carry this too.
How is that any crazier than wanting a three-way relationship?
Roma asks, but Jean replies that she didnt want any hurt feelings.
But only four visits), Roma storms off.
Because again, she can barely handle one girlfriend, let alone two.
And she storms off with the best exit line possible: Thank you for the terrible tea.
But I have flyers I need to be stapling up to protect us from the patriarchy.
This isnt really necessary to the narrative, but Roma is awesome.
She needs to stop hiding.
And thats exactly what she does at the National Womens Caucus.
Attending as promised, Roma, Jean, and others interrupt a speech from the Lavender Menace movement.
We are not a menace, Roma proclaims, We are not a distraction.
And we will not be silenced any longer.
Apparently its as easy as having someone on the inside over at the permit offices.
Roma is finally putting the pieces together, with Jeans help.
And thats when everything gets more complicated, as Diane has come to San Francisco to be with her.
Thats the Vietnam War for you.
But Michaels death and the things Ken saw and did in Vietnam are still weighing on him.
At the cafe, Ken meets Mama Jose and introduces himself as Michael.
But Ken is far too terrified and runs away, telling the cops hes not one of them.
That feel born in me.
Hes not sure if Michaels in heaven, hell, or if its even his fault.
Ken wears his heart on his sleeve.
Ive never left a brother behind…
They hit it off instantly, and he even tells Richard his real name.
Hows that for a happy ending in Part I?
The peace movement kids, the womens movement, the civil rights fighters.
All of the outsiders and outcasts.
Everything we read told us that San Francisco was where we, the us-es, could find safe harbor.
So thats where we went.
On our own journeys to find freedom and shelter.
All of the us-es.
