I remember May 26, 2009 quite vividly. My friend Ben and I took the subway into San Francisco. Protest signs in hand, we made our way to the steps of the California Supreme Court building, joining the throngs of people who had been waiting there all morning — waiting, eagerly, for the announcement of the decision of Strauss v. Horton, the case that would decide the fate of the well-known and highly controversial Proposition 8.