Co-authors Geoffrey King and Sunny Angulo held a release party last week for their new book, Such a Bitter Sweet Day: Marriage Equality in the Wake of Prop 8. The book, which includes a foreward by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, chronicles the Marriage Equality movement and the various impacts of Proposition 8, a controversial ballot measure passed by California voters in 2008 overturning a California Supreme Court ruling granting same-sex couples the right to marry.

"Such a Bittersweet Day includes the stories of a diverse cast of queer activists, working people, politicos, women, people of faith, transgendered leaders and families who tell their own powerful and unique stories in their own words, as well as images that capture the struggle for equality across California and in the nation's capitol," a synopsis of the book reads.