Love on trial : our Supreme Court fight for the right to marry

Author

Kristin Perry

Call Number

• 346.0168 P4638 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Berkeley, CA : Roaring Forties Press, 2017.

Physical Description

xi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

"Told in their own voice, this is the story of two women who took their struggle for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court--and won. Kris Perry and Sandy Stier are the lesbian half of the plaintiff team that sued the state of California to restore marriage equality. By 2008, when Californians voted in Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage, Kris and Sandy had been a couple raising their four sons for almost a decade. Living in Berkeley, they were a modern family, but without the protections of legal marriage. In alternating voices, American Pride tells the story of each woman's journey from her 1960s all-American childhood to the US Supreme Court, sharing tales of growing up in rural America, coming out to bewildered parents, falling in love, and finally becoming a family. From wrangling teenagers and careers to hot flashes at the Supreme Court, this book provide an honest, funny look at a family that landed in the middle of one of the most important civil rights battles of our era"--

"The first person account of the authors' fight for marriage equality"--

Contents

• Golden arches in the Golden State
• A "normal little girl"
• Floating in the deep end
• Birth order
• A grown-up life
• Baby steps
• My brown-eyed girl
• Every time she smiles
• Rearview mirror
• What is normal, anyway?
• A proposal
• Renovations and explanations
• A weekday wedding
• City Hall, boys and all
• Married in every way but one
• The ballot box
• Can you hold?
• The dream team
• Toughening up for trial
• Perry v. Schwarzenegger
• Perry v. Raum
• Baseball analogies
• Full disclosure
• Perry v. Perry
• The witness stand
• Full-court press
• If you're not laughing every day...
• The people's magazine
• Closing arguments
• The ruling
• A win and a loss
• 8
• Waiting for our rights
• A good day for marriage equality
• Two steps forward, one step back?