Introduction

By Adam Umhoefer, AFER Executive Director
Revisit the marriage equality truth commission through daily summaries, quotes and photos. As we prepare to take our case for full marriage equality to the U.S. Supreme Court, AFER highlights each day of the 2010 Prop. 8 trial as it happened.

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Watercolors by Vicki Ellen Beheringer

Witness Testimony

Day 1, January 11

• Jeff Zarrillo, AFER plaintiff
• Paul Katami, AFER plaintiff
• Kris Perry, AFER plaintiff
• Sandy Stier, AFER plaintiff
• Nancy Cott, professor of history at Harvard University

Day 2,  January 12

• Nancy Cott (continued)
• George Chauncey, professor of history at Yale University

Day 3, January 13

• George Chauncey (continued)
• Letitia Anne Peplau, professor of psychology at UCLA

Day 4, January 14

• Egan Edmund, chief economist for the City and County of San Francisco
• Ilan Meyer, professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences  at Columbia University

Day 5, January 15

•  Helen Zia, award-winning writer
• Michael Lamb, professor and head of the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, England

Day 6 , January 19

• Hon. Jerry Sanders, Mayor of San Diego
• M.V. Lee Badgett, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Day 7, January 20

• Ryan Kendall, “ex-gay” survivor
• Gary Segura, professor of political science at Stanford University

Day 8, January 21

• Gary Segura (continued)
• Hak-Shing William Tam, official proponent of Proposition 8, adverse witness

Day 9, January 22

• Gregory M. Herek, professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis

Day 10, January 25

• Kenneth Miller, professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College

Day 11, January 26

• Kenneth Miller (continued)
• David Blankenhorn, founder and president of the Institute for American Values

Day 12, January 27

• David Blankenhorn (continued)