Forcing the spring
inside the fight for marriage equality
by Jo Becker
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This book begins on Election Night 2008, when a controversial California ballot initiative called Proposition 8, which removed the right of gay men and women to marry, passed alongside Barack Obama's election victory. It details how a small but determined group of political and media insiders took the fight for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court. Gay activists and Hollywood liberals joined together to enlist attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies, the opposing counsels on the Supreme Court's infamous Bush v. Gore ruling, to bring a controversial legal case against Proposition 8 before the highest court in the land. This is the extraordinary ringside account of this unprecedented effort to shift public opinion and reengineer the political certainties of an era. -- Provided by publisher.
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Locus standi, United States, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies, Trials, litigation, California, Same-sex marriage, Cases, Law and legislation, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights, Marriage law, California, politics and government, Gay rightsPlaces
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Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
2015, Penguin Publishing Group
in English
0143127233 9780143127239
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Forcing the spring: inside the fight for marriage equality
2014, The Penguin Press
in English
1594204446 9781594204449
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