Are Californians Big Losers?
From the Gold Rush to Marriage Equality, This State’s Success Stories Have Always Followed Spectacular Failures
How do you win in California? Lose big first.
That’s a very old bit of wisdom in a state founded by people who abandoned their homes and families to move here and fail to get rich in the Gold Rush. But this lesson has been given fresh context by a new book (Jo Becker’s Forcing the Spring) and a new documentary film (The Case Against 8, which opened in theaters last week) that provide behind-the-scenes accounts of the successful effort to invalidate Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage.
The passage of …
