Four longtime Asian American gay and lesbian families speak out on marriage and Marriage Equality in the face of California's virulent Proposition 8 campaign. They speak of life and love and the challenges they face under the U.S. federal Defense of Marriage Act. Families include Prop 8 litigants, Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis, whereby Gaffney's parents were one of the earliest Chinese Caucasian interracial couples to marry in California soon after the landmark 1948 Perez vs. Sharp ruling, overturning California's anti-miscegenation laws. Other families include Filipina/o bi-national couple, Shirley Tan and Jay Mercado, whereby Tan is facing the threat of deportation which will break up their family of 27 years and separate her from her partner and their twin teenage sons; Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women Transgender Coalition (APIQWTC) co-founder Crystal Jang and Sydney Yeong; and longtime Japantown residents and restauranteur Kenneth Kaji and Ryoji Imaizumi.