David Blankenhorn (played by Gregory Itzin), who testified in defense of Proposition 8, later announced that his views on the matter had changed. He wrote about this in an op-ed piece for the New York Times, "How My Views on Gay Marriage Changed" published June 22, 2012.
Filmmaker John Ireland began working on this project after a January 13, 2010 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the public broadcast of Perry v. Schwarzenegger.