Forcing the spring : inside the fight for marriage equality

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Label

Forcing the spring : inside the fight for marriage equality

Title remainder

inside the fight for marriage equality

Statement of responsibility

Jo Becker

Creator

• Becker, Jo,

Author

• Becker, Jo,

Subject

• Hollingsworth, Dennis, 1967- -- Trials, litigation, etc
• Locus standi -- United States -- Cases
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
• California.
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies
• Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Cases
• United States.
• Perry, Kristin -- Trials, litigation, etc
• Hollingsworth v. Perry, 570 U.S. (2013)

Language

eng

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"--

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DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography