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LOVE ON TRIAL

Sandy Stier Kris Perry

Our Supreme Court Fight for the Right to Marry

Told in their own voice, this is the story of two women who took their struggle for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court--and won.

Kris Perry and Sandy Stier are the lead plaintiffs in the team that sued the state of California to restore marriage equality. By 2008, when Californians voted in Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage, Kris and Sandy had been a couple raising their four sons for almost a decade.

Living in Berkeley, they were a modern family, but without the protections of legal marriage. In alternating voices, Love on Trial tells the story of each woman's journey from her 1960s all-American childhood to the US Supreme Court, sharing tales of growing up in rural America, coming out to bewildered parents, falling in love, and finally becoming a family. From wrangling teenagers and careers to hot flashes at the Supreme Court, this book provides an honest, amusing look at a family that landed in the middle of one of the most important civil rights battles of our era.

Kris Perry is the Executive Director of the First Five Years Fund.
Sandy Stier is a Senior Advisor in the US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children & Families.
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Published 2017-05-01 by Roaring Forties Press

Comments

A captivating good love story and a ringside seat to a profound moment in our country's history. Kris and Sandy did not need to write this book but our country needed them to write it. --Chelsea Clinton

A beautiful and important literary pas de deux about the landmark case for love and marriage. Kris and Sandy have given us a gift with their honest honoring of the institution they have fought so hard to have and to hold on to. --Jamie Lee Curtis