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Bonus! Fact versus fiction in the Prop 8 play
About 15 years ago, there was a trial over gay marriage, the Prop 8 trial, and it was videotaped. But the tapes of that trial were kept under lock and key because anti-gay groups didn't want anyone to see how badly they did in court. So with the tapes of the trial locked up, other groups did dramati
Apr 13, 2026 0 1
Bonus video! How you can defeat despair after an awful election
I went to a No Kings protest this weekend and I was thinking: When terrible things happen in the world and it seems like nobody cares and things are never going to get any better, it is very easy to experience despair. So what do you do about that? How do you process those feelings and then move on
Mar 29, 2026 0 1
Bonus! What to do when people aren't sure how they feel "about that same-sex marriage thing"
The year is 2008, and you are in charge of a campaign to convince California voters that gay marriage is good, actually. The problem is that it's 2008, and California voters aren't sure how they feel about this whole same sex marriage thing. So what do you do?I've been unearthing a lot of old interv
Mar 22, 2026 0 1
Bonus! What happens when the bad guys' deposition goes terribly wrong (for them)
Maybe you saw the deliciously embarrassing depositions of the right-wing idiots brought in to cancel government grants going to anything gay. In the videos, these guys come off as totally unprepared, and rather ridiculous. But ... what happens now? Do these depositions actually DO anything? Well, wh
Mar 15, 2026 0 1
Bonus! Inside accounts of political malpractice on the Prop 8 campaign
I've been digging through some of my own archival footage recently -- interviews that I did ten to fifteen years ago around Prop 8 and the marriage equality movement. And I've rediscovered some pretty intriguing accounts of early activism for marriage, as well as a very frustrating failure during th
Mar 1, 2026 0 1