A pair of Los Angeles filmmakers are recreating all 60-plus
hours of California’s trial on the gay marriage ban.  The trial,
which is the first federal trial to examine whether the state’s
ban is constitutional, is currently on a break until next month.
Before it began, presiding judge Vaughn Walker ruled proceedings
could be broadcast on YouTube but gay marriage opponents
successfully argued in the Supreme Court that they could be
subjected to intimidation if they were shown.  Instead,
filmmakers John Ainsworth and John Ireland are using 3,000 pages
of court transcripts and professional actors to re-enact the
landmark trial word for word.  The men, who both married their
partners while gay marriage was briefly legal in California,
have begun filming the re-enactment, with one installment
already published.  Mr Ireland told Press Association: “This is
something I believe should be a resource for Americans.  “This
is a process we as a society are going through, and there is
nothing like good drama with profes