Starring: Ted Olson, Jeffrey Zarillo, Paul Katami, Kristin Perry, Sandra Stier
Director: Ben Cotner, Ryan White
Running Time: 109 mins
Certificate: E
Release Date: November 10th 2014 (UK)

For those of you who don’t keep up with the gay rights struggle in the US, in November 2008 a measure was put on the California ballot – Proposition 8 – that sought to add to the state’s constitution that marriage should be solely between one man and one woman. It was particularly contentious as for several months gay marriage had been legal in California, meaning that when the electorate voted for Prop 8, 1000s of same sex marriages were suddenly invalidated.

The Case Against 8 follows what happened after that, when it was decided that the best way forward to ensure marriage equality was legal in the most populous US State was to launch a court case that would seek to find Prop 8 as being against the overall US Constitution. [Read more…]