Bibliograph

Forcing the spring, inside the fight for marriage equality, Jo Becker

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Forcing the spring, inside the fight for marriage equality, Jo Becker

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [438]-450) and index

Illustrations

platesphotographsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Forcing the spring

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jo Becker

Sub title

inside the fight for marriage equality

Summary

Forcing the Spring 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 stunning victory. Forcing the Spring 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. Forcing the Spring is the extraordinary ringside account of this unprecedented effort to shift public opinion and reengineer the political certainties of an era

Target audience

adult

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Inside the fight for marriage equality

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