

Accidental Activists
Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas
Author: David Collins, Julian Castro, Evan Wolfson
Narrator: James Patrick Cronin
Unabridged: 14 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 09/05/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Law, Family Law, Social Science, Lgbtq+ Nonfiction
Synopsis
Two years later—after tense battles in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas and in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, after sitting through oral arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States in Obergefell v. Hodges—they won the right to marry deep in the heart of Texas. But the road they traveled was never easy. Accidental Activists is the deeply moving story of two men who struggled to achieve the dignity of which Justice Anthony Kennedy spoke in a series of Supreme Court decisions that recognized the "personhood," the essential humanity of gays and lesbians.
Author David Collins tells Mark and Vic’s story in the context of legal and social history and explains the complex legal issues and developments surrounding same-sex marriage in layman's terms.