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Reflecting on the Fight for Marriage Equality

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Much of today's anti-LGBTQ rhetoric – including from new House Speaker Mike Johnson – was also behind Proposition 8, the 2008 measure that banned same-sex marriage in California. Kris Perry, left, and Sandy Stier, two plaintiffs in the landmark lawsuit that overturned Prop. 8, sit during an interview at KQED in San Francisco on March 3, 2023. Stier and Perry came to the studio to watch clips of their testimony in federal court, which KQED fought to get unsealed, for the first time. (Kori Suzuki/KQED)

In 2010, Sandy Stier and Kris Perry were part of a landmark case challenging California’s Prop. 8, which eliminated the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples after being approved by voters two years earlier. Their trial eventually resulted in Prop. 8 being struck down.

More than a decade later, Stier and Perry joined KQED to watch the unsealed tapes of their younger selves taking the stand, and reflected on what it meant to be part of that fight.

This episode originally aired on Dec. 22, 2023.


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