A lawyer for the Proposition 8 campaign tried to show today that gays and lesbians now enjoy significant political and public support and have been portrayed positively in such films as “Brokeback Mountain.”

David H. Thompson, representing the sponsors of the 2008 ballot initiative, cross-examined George Chauncey, a Yale University history professor who testified Tuesday that there has been a long and dark history of discrimination against gays and lesbians in the U.S.

Read the rest of Maura Dolan’s LA Times article here.