Prop 8 trial tapes expose systemic homophobia (video)
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losangelesblade.comAFER’s Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami, Chad Griffin, sons Elliott and Spencer, Sandy Stier and Kris Perry, LA Feb. 2012 (Photo by Karen Ocamb) After 10 years of arguments, a federal judge has finally ordered the release of videotapes from the historic 2010 Federal District Court trial against Proposition 8 in San Francisco that put marriage equality on the line.
At stake: can the State deny the right to marry to some Americans based solely on who those individuals choose to marry? LGBTQ people privately celebrated their relationships until the AIDS crisis when longtime lovers, considered “legal strangers” were kept from the hospital bedsides of their dying partners and were evicted when estranged families showed up.
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