Calif. gay marriage trial re-enacted on Internet
Seeking to overcome a broadcast blackout imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court, a pair of gay Los Angeles filmmakers have undertaken the task of faithfully recreating the federal trial on California's same-sex marriage ban for the Internet. All 60-plus hours of it. Every "um," ''Yes, your honor" and "objection!"
John Ainsworth and John Ireland are using 3,000 pages of court transcripts as scripts and professional actors as the main characters to produce the weighty re-enactment of a case that some have described as the gay marriage movement's Brown v. Board of Education.
"This is something I believe should be a resource for Americans," Ireland said. "This is a process we as a society are going through, and there is nothing like good drama with professional actors that allows people to consider the lives of others that are different from them."
