Accidental Activists

The film follows April DeBoer and her partner Jayne Rowse, who went to court and challenged the state of Michigan's adoption law.

[3] Mandi Wright followed and documented the five year journey of Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer, who initially were looking to overturn Michigan's law that kept them from joint custody of their adopted children.

They started putting wills and trusts in place, but those documents basically had no legal status, because it would be within a judge's discretion to award that child to someone else.

[6] In 2012, DeBoer and Rowse announced at a news conference they were filing a federal lawsuit against the state; Wright and another reporter accompanying her from the newspaper, were the only media there.

[6] Honestly, I never thought I'd see the day where gay people could get legally married all across the U.S. Wright said she knew from the beginning this was going to be a good story.

"[8] A review in Workers World was very blunt is stating that the film "reminds us of the serious harm done to countless real families by so-called defenders of 'traditional marriage' ... and now these bigots ... think they can get away with blatant discrimination through anti-LGBTQ laws justified on the basis of hateful 'sincerely held religious beliefs'.

"[9] The National Press Photographers Association said the movie is "both polished and gritty and mostly a mixture of digital single-lens reflex camera and iPhone stills and video footage.