Love Exiles will present a workshop during the Outgames in Copenhagen, on July 27th, and on 1 August will be present on the I Do Boat in the Amsterdam Canal Pride. We also participated in a Dutch/US exchange during Gay Pride at the end of June. The urgent need to redress discrimination in US immigration law is the main theme of all events.
The Love Exiles workshop at the World Outgames will be held on 27 July 2009, 15:30 – 17:00. Panelists are Martha McDevitt-Pugh, Bob Bragar and Gordon Stewart. I will chair the event. We will tell people how it is for us to be forced to live outside our countries of origin, in order to be with our spouses or partners. We will examine how countries such as the Netherlands handle the issues that face same-sex couples, with suggestions that other countries can follow. The workshop will deal with the challenge of changing cultures/ being a foreigner, language issues, employment challenges, human stories of change, immigration and love, visa and immigration obstacles and possibilities. We will also highlight the loss of professional talent that countries that prohibit same-sex immigration experience when they force their citizens to emigrate as love exiles....
Summer of Love in Exile
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Promoting public awareness of the need for fairness in immigration policy particularly as it relates to the rights of same-sex bi-national couples in the United States who seek equal immigration rights; Providing information regarding political issues relating to gay immigration equality issues, rights and policy.
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