frankly, petty and parochial fight over control of a pride planning committee, which in honolulu, hawaii. anybody on any sort of event planning committee will recognize some of the small-scale pettiness of this. yeah. it spirals out of control and the local activist launches a pr stunt in december of 1990 to force the hand of local aclu. he thinks they haven t taken seriously the desire to win marriage rights. that leads to a lawsuit in hawaii and some really crazy things happen in hawaii supreme court. and i think when we, you know, we get to 2015, obviously, and we see the result of this at the decision and assume because it ends in justice it had to be inevitable and what is clear from my reporting into the origins of it is no part of the conflict over marriage was inevitable. so, alfonso, as the president of the human rights campaign. the largest lgbtq rights