Trivia / Equal

• Fake American: Australian actor Keiynan Lonsdale plays African-American civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: The miniseries portrays many historical LGBT+ people with LGBT+ actors (usually of the same orientation or gender). The cast includes Anthony Rapp as gay activist Harry Hay, Jamie Clayton as Christine Jorgenson, the first well-known American trans woman to get sex reassignment surgery, and Samira Wiley as Black lesbian playwright/writer Lorraine Hansberry.