In the civil-rights battle for marriage equality for lesbian and gay couples, several companies have taken activist roles. Most notably: Eli Lilly and Company, Cummins and WellPoint...have actively battled the Defense of Marriage Act in Indiana...Several California-based companies publicly worked against Proposition 8...[which] eliminate[d] the right of same-sex couples to marry in that state...[including] PG&E...and Levi Strauss...[S]everal New York–based companies publicly supported the decision to allow same-sex marriage in that state...includ[ing] McGraw-Hill and Xerox, as well as former Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons...