2010 began with Bomer invited to sing with actress and Tony Award winning singer Kelli O'Hara at the Kennedy Center Honors. In September 2011, Bomer starred in Dustin Lance Black's play, "8", a staged re-enactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Proposition 8. Bomer starred as Jeff Zarrillo, Cheyenne Jackson's character husband, Paul Katami. Proposition 8 is an initiative that won voters' approval in California on November 4, 2008, which banned same-sex marriage. The production was directed by actor Joe Mantello and presented at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City. In March 2012, he was featured in the Wilshire Ebell Theatre production as well, one of the plaintiffs in trial.