Host its wonderful to be here today. We have so much to talk about so before we get started i thought it would be useful to share with people our format which is that i want to start a little bit by asking you about how you came to write the book and the experience of being embedded in and step back and talk about the frame of the book and what youre covering here and get back to the particular assertions you make in the book. You talk about. The book is called forcing the spring with the subtitle inside the fight for Marriage Equality and to get inside this fight as you say to fully embedded yourself with the team the activists and the lawyers and plaintiffs who challengechallenged californias proposition 8 which was the course the constitutional amendment that took away the marriage rights for samesex couples in california. For starters im interested in how this came to pass. He said at the end of the book you got interested in the story because you interviewed ted olson and reported
Strategy to take this cost to the Supreme Court. They could wind up heroes or goats us back how much did you know about lgbt, had you reported on the lgbt Civil Rights Movement before . Guest not extensively. Host what kind of reporting it to don . Guest a lot of legal reporting. Host on lgbt transferred no, no. On bush the door bush v. Gore. I had written about constitutional law but not specifically about this issue except to the extent that i covered legislators, silly unions would come up. Unions, legislation would come up in each of them and this is probably in the early 2000s. Its funny to think today, that was very controversial in these. So i covered these legislative battles over civil unions but certainly not the landmark cases that you were involved in. Host what kind of experience have you had with the lgbt Civil Rights Movement . Youve talked a lot about the gay establishment. What kind of expense have had with the organizations that have been leading lgbt civil rights for
place. also looking at gay pride. new york said yes to gay marriage. and san francisco mayor race a lot coming up first topping or news. san francisco police are blaming gangs for last night s violent shoot out. officers are holding two suspects after a shooting spree in broad daylight. it happened around 6:15 p.m. last night in the tenderloin neighbourhood market and jones five people were shot and sent to hospital. investigators closed off market, mccallister and jones streets not far from where gay pride festivities were wrapping up. all victims have nonlife threatening injuries four of them were just passer bys, one is a 45-year-old man visiting from england, witnesses saw two groups of people involved in some sort of fight before the shooting the spite filled over in the fight spilled over in foot traffic from pride events. it is an ongoing problem. we have narcotics and other things, gang related. not due to the proximity of pride events at all. two suspec