One Summer in New Paltz A Cautionary Tale

President Bushs call for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to enshrine a heterosexual definition of marriage ignited a wave of civil disobedience samesex marriages across the USA One Summer in New Paltz focuses on the small village of New Paltz NY where the mayor Jason West began performing samesex marriages on the steps of village hall and 1000s of couples flooded the village seeking to be married The film goes on to document civil disobedience samesex marriages and demonstrations across New York State the Nyack Ten legal suit against New York state and the first day of legal samesex marriages in Boston Massachusetts in May 2004 One Summer in New Paltz probes into the debate on samesex marriage examining the intersection of samesex marriage war the Constitution race and the family A strong work about grass roots organizing straightgay alliances and confrontation with state repression