Full performance of 8 : A Play about the Fight for Marriage Equality

Featuring an allstar cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jane Lynch, Kevin Bacon and others, 8 is a play written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and directed by acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner. It is a powerful account of the case filed by the American Federation for Equal Rights (AFER ) in the U. S. District Court in 2010 to overturn Proposition 8 LINK, a constitutional amendment that eliminated the rights of samesex couples to marry in the state of California. Framed around the trial s historic closing arguments in June 2010, 8 provides an intimate look what unfolded when the issue of samesex marriage was on