http://imeq.us/info2 Your Source for imeQ Social News and Binational Networking Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:13:20 EDT en http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/playing-the-waiting-game-mdash-again---dallas-voice/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/playing-the-waiting-game-mdash-again---dallas-voice/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:13:20 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/playing-the-waiting-game-mdash-again---dallas-voice/
8 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/for-same-sex-binational-couples-is-the-time/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/for-same-sex-binational-couples-is-the-time/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:13:20 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/for-same-sex-binational-couples-is-the-time/
5 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/the-out4immigration-blog-is-it-time-to-focus-on-repealing-doma/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/the-out4immigration-blog-is-it-time-to-focus-on-repealing-doma/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:13:20 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/the-out4immigration-blog-is-it-time-to-focus-on-repealing-doma/
18 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/inhumane-impact-of-doma---salon/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/inhumane-impact-of-doma---salon/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:13:20 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/inhumane-impact-of-doma---salon/
10 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/human-rights-campaign-claim-congress-is-polarised---pink-paper/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/human-rights-campaign-claim-congress-is-polarised---pink-paper/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:13:20 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/human-rights-campaign-claim-congress-is-polarised---pink-paper/
15 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/winning-in-politics-is-a-two-party-fight---washington-blade/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/winning-in-politics-is-a-two-party-fight---washington-blade/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:54:45 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/winning-in-politics-is-a-two-party-fight---washington-blade/
11 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/watch-president-obama-on-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart---lez-get-real/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/watch-president-obama-on-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart---lez-get-real/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:54:45 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/watch-president-obama-on-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart---lez-get-real/
14 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/uniting-american-love---chelsea-now/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/uniting-american-love---chelsea-now/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:54:45 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/uniting-american-love---chelsea-now/
10 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/president-obama-hints-at-changing-attitude-on-marriage-equality/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/president-obama-hints-at-changing-attitude-on-marriage-equality/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:54:45 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/president-obama-hints-at-changing-attitude-on-marriage-equality/
5 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/the-economics-of-immigration/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/the-economics-of-immigration/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:54:45 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/the-economics-of-immigration/
10 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/our-picks-for-the-us-senate-and-house---chelsea-now/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/our-picks-for-the-us-senate-and-house---chelsea-now/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:18:10 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/our-picks-for-the-us-senate-and-house---chelsea-now/
17 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/binational-couple-confronts-congressman-rush-holt-to-halt/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/binational-couple-confronts-congressman-rush-holt-to-halt/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:18:10 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/binational-couple-confronts-congressman-rush-holt-to-halt/
19 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/immigration-reform-can-not-wait---wnyc-blog/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/immigration-reform-can-not-wait---wnyc-blog/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:18:10 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/immigration-reform-can-not-wait---wnyc-blog/
6 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/grass-roots-immigration-reform---los-angeles-times/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/grass-roots-immigration-reform---los-angeles-times/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:18:10 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/grass-roots-immigration-reform---los-angeles-times/
5 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/georgia-top-dems-make-soft-pitch-for-gay-votes---project-q-atlanta/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/georgia-top-dems-make-soft-pitch-for-gay-votes---project-q-atlanta/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:18:10 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/georgia-top-dems-make-soft-pitch-for-gay-votes---project-q-atlanta/
20 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/uniting-american-love---gay-city-news/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/uniting-american-love---gay-city-news/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:09:00 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/uniting-american-love---gay-city-news/
13 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/conversations-the-importance-of-story-telling/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/conversations-the-importance-of-story-telling/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:09:00 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/conversations-the-importance-of-story-telling/
19 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/president-obama-glimmer-of-hope/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/president-obama-glimmer-of-hope/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:09:00 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/president-obama-glimmer-of-hope/
19 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/the-out4immigration-blog-dealing-with-victories-and-defeats/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/the-out4immigration-blog-dealing-with-victories-and-defeats/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:09:00 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/the-out4immigration-blog-dealing-with-victories-and-defeats/
6 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/bi-cultural-love-and-immigration-laws/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/bi-cultural-love-and-immigration-laws/ Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:44:45 EDT saucy71 immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/bi-cultural-love-and-immigration-laws/ I have pictures and videos as well. before all this happened I had no idea that things like these happens in the USA. The reason I am doing all this is to educate people about it. Feel free to send me your links, blogs, pages, etc. related to this topic. I am very interested to learn from everybody experience and we can all share and learn from each other.

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/the-american-equality-bill-one-bill-for-equal-lgbt-civil-rights-join/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/the-american-equality-bill-one-bill-for-equal-lgbt-civil-rights-join/ Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:07:49 EDT uluckidog immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/the-american-equality-bill-one-bill-for-equal-lgbt-civil-rights-join/
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The American Equality Bill - ONE Bill for Equal LGBT Civil Rights

American Equality Bill is a proposed federal law that will amend all existing federal civil rights laws to include "sexual orientation" and "gender identity".

Drafted by Karen Doering, an attorney who has been involved in some of the most important legal LGBT victories and controversies, the bill takes the approach that piecemeal bills for various areas of discrimination -- employment and housing and credit and so on -- will take too long and too many resources to be really successful.

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/political-expediency-controls-immigration-reform-at-expense-of-uafa/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/political-expediency-controls-immigration-reform-at-expense-of-uafa/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:08:57 EDT Fight4theRight immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/political-expediency-controls-immigration-reform-at-expense-of-uafa/
What damn idiot thought it a plan to attach UAFA to amnesty and Biometrics? The lobby of Schumer by Immigration Equality and all the rest of us idiots puppets to the lockstep delusions of three incompetent decision makers puporting to represent an entire community in its decision making without so much ads a vote. ... Senators we do not all agree with the Immigration Equality Lobby - THEY DO NOT represent us or what many of us want. ... Immigration Equality LOBBY NOW for UAFA as a

24 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/potential-split-in-immigration-coalition/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/potential-split-in-immigration-coalition/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:24:07 EDT USABound immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/potential-split-in-immigration-coalition/
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) is holding a press conference Monday to announce that he wants to extend family immigration benefits to binational gay couples. The representative leading the charge on immigration had not included that community in his original proposal unveiled last year. ...

"This proposal threatens to undermine the opportunity to bring together the Congress and the American people around a common solution to the important challenge of immigration reform," the group said in a statement.

The gay rights issue could also alienate Evangelical leaders who could sway moderate Democrats and Republicans to support immigration.

Liberal factions in the coalition argue tha

20 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/we-must-be-vigilant-on-immigration-reform/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/we-must-be-vigilant-on-immigration-reform/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:24:07 EDT USAFrance immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/we-must-be-vigilant-on-immigration-reform/
But Julie Kruse, Immigration Equality's policy director, confirmed things aren't looking good for the bill. Due to the current political climate in which incumbents fear retaliation from their constituents, and the fact that Congress' working days are numbered, no movement on immigration legislation is expected until after November. It's more likely that financial regulation and climate change will be tackled in the months ahead.

Kruse said in an e-mail, though, s

19 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/love-across-oceans-us-government-is-still-a-sinking-ship/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/love-across-oceans-us-government-is-still-a-sinking-ship/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:24:07 EDT USABound immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/love-across-oceans-us-government-is-still-a-sinking-ship/
There was nothing ambiguous, however, about the situation that a dear friend of mine recently faced when she and her non-American partner had to figure out how the hell to be together despite a federal government that refuses to recognize their love and commitment. After many costly and painful twists and turns, they're now relying on an education visa. Incidentally, many international couples (heterosexual included) must rely on these visas in order to be together, as they can be far less costly than hiring a lawyer and going through marriage proceedings.

In any case, I wanted to shine a spotlight

18 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/action-towards-immigration-reform-for-same-sex-bi-national-couples-may-begin-soon/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/action-towards-immigration-reform-for-same-sex-bi-national-couples-may-begin-soon/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:24:07 EDT WantMyFreedom2 immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/action-towards-immigration-reform-for-same-sex-bi-national-couples-may-begin-soon/
Authored by Assembly Member Kevin de Leon, CA-45, AJR 15 declares California's disapproval of current US Immigration laws which forbids Same-Sex bi-national couples the opportunity from being able to sponsor their partners for immigration purposes.

16 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/us-anti-gay-immigration-policies-may-be-influenced-by-united-nations-review/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/us-anti-gay-immigration-policies-may-be-influenced-by-united-nations-review/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:24:07 EDT Fight4theRight immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/us-anti-gay-immigration-policies-may-be-influenced-by-united-nations-review/
The United States has also felt Dittrich's influence. Through his involvement with the U.S. Council for Global Equality, he pushed the State Department to require all American ambassadors to include reports on LGBT issues in the countries where they are stationed.

7 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/resolution-to-support-gay-binational-couples-heads-to-california-senate/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/resolution-to-support-gay-binational-couples-heads-to-california-senate/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:03:06 EDT LauREN immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/resolution-to-support-gay-binational-couples-heads-to-california-senate/
Our cover story this week, "Worlds Apart," tells the story of three Bay Area couples whose lives would be changed by the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), a federal bill that allows "permanent partners" to be treated the same as straight spouses in immigration matters. Currently, gay couples have no legal pathway to sponsor their foreign partners to stay in the country.


While the federal UAFA bill is on hold while lawmakers decide whether to include it in the comprehensive immigration reform, California legislators such as Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) introduced a resolution last year urging the U.S. Congress to pass the s

10 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/rare-permission-by-dhs-for-binational-couple/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/rare-permission-by-dhs-for-binational-couple/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:03:06 EDT BinatUK immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/rare-permission-by-dhs-for-binational-couple/
Tim Coco and Genesio Oliveira married in 2005, when same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts.

However because gay people are unable to sponsor a spouse for immigration to the USA in parity with heterosexual couples, they were separated for nearly three years with Tim in Massachusetts and Genesio stuck in Brazil..

In an extraordinarily rare show of compassion, the immigration officials granted permission for Genesio to enter the USA and remain here for one year on humanitarian grounds, clearing the way for him to try again for legal residency.


Coco said he has spent about $250,000 in legal bills. A h

5 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/evangelicals-push-exclusion-of-uafa-advocate/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/evangelicals-push-exclusion-of-uafa-advocate/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:03:06 EDT freedom2immigrate immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/evangelicals-push-exclusion-of-uafa-advocate/
Groups such as the National Association of Evangelicals and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference have joined Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of the conservative legal group Liberty Counsel, in vehemently opposing inclusion of the Uniting American Families Act, which would allow American citizens and green card holders to sponsor their foreign-born same-sex partners for residency.


7 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/religious-groups-counter-evangelical-opposition-to-equality-in-immigration-reform/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/religious-groups-counter-evangelical-opposition-to-equality-in-immigration-reform/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:03:06 EDT USABound immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/religious-groups-counter-evangelical-opposition-to-equality-in-immigration-reform/
But as I reported on Monday, that support comes with a caveat: no equality for gay and lesbian couples.

Now religious groups who support LGBT equality have pushed back, issuing a statement through the group Immigration Equality Action Fund condemning evangelical efforts to exclude the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) from a comprehensive reform package.


25 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/worlds-apart-freedom-to-marry/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/worlds-apart-freedom-to-marry/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:03:06 EDT BinationalHope immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/worlds-apart-freedom-to-marry/
"Now that Arizona's 'papers please' law has pushed immigration reform to Washington's front burner, Democrats propose allowing 'permanent partners' to be treated the same as spouses under immigration law. While 19 countries have similar policies, it won't be an easy sell: The gay lobby fears they'll be sacrificed as a bargaining chip to get Republicans on board, while pro-immigrant groups worry that adding in gays will ruin any chance for reform for everyone else.

"While critics say le

4 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/council-supports-bill-giving-equal-immigration-rights-to-same-sex-couples/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/council-supports-bill-giving-equal-immigration-rights-to-same-sex-couples/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:03:06 EDT USAFrance immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/council-supports-bill-giving-equal-immigration-rights-to-same-sex-couples/
Councilman At-Large David Catania authored the resolution last week, and the other 12 members of the council co-introduced it.

U.S. immigration law does not allow same-sex citizens and permanent residents to sponsor foreign-born partners for immigration benefits.

The UAFA, introduced in the House by U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and in the Senate by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., would "amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate discrimination in the immigration laws by permitting permanent partners of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents to obtain lawful permanent resident status in the same manner as spouses of citizens and lawful permanent residents and to penalize immigration fraud in connec

5 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/is-immigration-rights-for-same-sex-couples-possible/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/is-immigration-rights-for-same-sex-couples-possible/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:43:04 EDT BinatUK immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/is-immigration-rights-for-same-sex-couples-possible/
Gay couples in this situation have no legal recourse, an issue that SF Weekly recently highlighted with the stories of several same-sex couples who were separated by US immigration law, or had one partner living in the United States illegally.

Because the federal Defense of Marriage Act prohibits legal recognition of same-sex relationships, couples married in California, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and Vermont can't sponsor their spouses for citizenship either.

Democrats in the Senate have included a provision for same-sex couples in their immigration reform proposal released April 29, which will give them the same immigration rights as straight cou

7 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/calling-for-a-new-direction-by-marrying-dream-act-to-uafa/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/calling-for-a-new-direction-by-marrying-dream-act-to-uafa/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:43:04 EDT freedom2immigrate immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/calling-for-a-new-direction-by-marrying-dream-act-to-uafa/
Gays and Lesbian spouses in the USA cannot sponsor foreign born partners for immigration to the USA, commensurate with that very right, freely exercised by different-gender couples.

Contextually, this fight has been going on for well over a decade and has a history of Bills introduced, none of which garnished as much traction as the Bill introduced by Democratic Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New last year, The Uniting AMERICAN Families Act. (UAFA)

3 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/activists-calling-for-stronger-proactive-counter-catholic-bishop-action/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/activists-calling-for-stronger-proactive-counter-catholic-bishop-action/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:43:04 EDT USABound immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/activists-calling-for-stronger-proactive-counter-catholic-bishop-action/
However Immigration equality thinks this is no big deal and assert that the gay community has the upper hand on this one.

Today Steve Ralls, the spokesperson for Immigration Equality, speaking again to Kerry Eleveld at to the Advocate - said the breadth of support that has developed for folding gay families into the bill puts conservatives at a disadvantage. The combination of all those things

7 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/proclamation-acknowledges-2-dads-yet-exacerbates-discrimination/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/proclamation-acknowledges-2-dads-yet-exacerbates-discrimination/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:43:04 EDT Fight4theRight immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/proclamation-acknowledges-2-dads-yet-exacerbates-discrimination/
Mr. President - The bi-national couples, despite poor leadership and wild goose chases, want UAFA as a stand alone Bill- we are not willing to wait for Immigration reform, the latter still unavailable in Bill form. Frameworks do not cut it for us as we wait in fear, detention, exile, suicidal, desperate, lonely!

4 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/obama-and-lgbt-rights/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/obama-and-lgbt-rights/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:43:04 EDT UnitedByLove immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/obama-and-lgbt-rights/
But now that almost a third of Obama's first term has gone by, there is growing despair among many of his LGBT supporters over how little the administration has accomplished on gay rights. We have been here before. Eighteen years ago many gay rights advocates celebrated the election of President Clinton, the first presidential candidate to reach out to the LGBT c

11 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/jen-us-and-loz-uk-lgbt-immigration-stories/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/jen-us-and-loz-uk-lgbt-immigration-stories/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:43:04 EDT igualdad immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/jen-us-and-loz-uk-lgbt-immigration-stories/
Kristen Hall intertwines the necessary optimism and ever-lingering pessimism same-sex bi-national couples suffer in these two lines from one of my favourites of her insightfully written songs. When I listen to her velvety voice wrapping itself around these words, I feel the bristle of pain and anger that springs from a relationship started with pure joy and naïveté. Like many who are partnered with a same-sex foreigner, I often find myself teetering between tossing in the towel and jumping full force into the uncertainty of starting over, propelled equally by love and desperation.

I'm not over-dramatising-I'm a girl in love with a girl who just happens to come from another country, my country's greatest ally-the United Kingdom. The mor

22 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/gutierrez-and-quigley-push-lgbt-rights-in-immigration-reform/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/gutierrez-and-quigley-push-lgbt-rights-in-immigration-reform/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:40:41 EDT USAFrance immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/gutierrez-and-quigley-push-lgbt-rights-in-immigration-reform/
"Our legal immigration system is so dysfunctional and restrictive that we have created incentives for people to go around our system rather than going through it," Gutierrez said. "Nowhere is this more true than for committed same-sex couples who have to make a painful choice between their family and the immigration laws of the U.S. that do not recognize these family units for the purposes of immigration."

At a press conference at the Center on Halsted, Gutierrez said U.S. laws that allow heterosexuals to sponsor a partner for citizenship, but not gays and lesbians, send the wrong message.

"It seems t

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