and also from gay and lesbian rights groups like O4I, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), The Love Exiles Foundation, Immigration Equality and Marriage Equality USA. Within the Filipino community, the Bayan-USA ...
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Deportation looms for Filipina over gay Marriage
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igualdad 1126 days ago
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Senator Feinstein's Emergency Bill Saves Same-Sex Couple from ...Bay Area Indymedia, CAby Kathy Drasky Because federal immigration law does not currently allow LGBT Americans to sponsor their partners, it took an emergency bill introduced on the Senate floor yesterday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to keep one same-sex binational couple ...
Bay Area family's life upended by immigration nightmareBay Area Reporter, CACongresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo), who represents the district in which the women live, and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) are co-sponsors of the UAFA. There is some hope that Congress will act immediately and pass a private bill that ...
Kerry pushes asylum status for gay man separated from spouse but (Bay Windows)
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igualdad 1142 days ago
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Kerry pushes asylum status for gay man separated from spouse, but ...Bay Windows, MAThe bill has the backing of the advocacy groups Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Immigration Equality. Yet advocates and lawmakers believe the prospects of passing UAFA in the short term are slim. In a statement to Bay Windows Kerry wrote that he ...
Vermont Legalizes Gay Marriage with Veto Override (Indybay)
Posted by
Fight4theRight 1142 days ago
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Legislation is currently in Congress to remedy the immigration issue which, according to the Human Rights Watch, affects some 36000 gay and lesbian Americans with foreign partners. The Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) would add the ...
Io-wha??? (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
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ExileComingHome 1142 days ago
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Io-wha???San Francisco Bay Guardian, CADamn, I can't believe those Midwestern cornholers totally beat us bicoastal fudgepackers to the altar punch: so many delicious, delicious plot twists on the way to marriage equality. And yet compared to what's happening to so many LGBTs around the ...
Sen Kerry Goes To Bat For Binational Gay Couple (San Francisco Bay Times)
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ExileComingHome 1142 days ago
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Sen. Kerry Goes To Bat For Binational Gay CoupleSan Francisco Bay Times, CAKerry is a co-sponsor of a bill in Congress to extend spousal immigration rights to same-sex couples. Gay couples can marry in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Vermont’s Senate passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage March 24. The vote was 26-4. ...
Bay Area family's life upended by immigration nightmareBay Area Reporter, CACongresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo), who represents the district in which the women live, and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) are co-sponsors of the UAFA. There is some hope that Congress will act immediately and pass a private bill that ...
For US immigration partnered doesn't count (San Francisco Chronicle)
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MikeLA 1142 days ago
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Shirley Tan has been with her partner, Jay Mercado, for 23 years. The Pacifica women have twin 12-year-old sons and have been registered domestic partners since 1991. That means nothing to the federal government, which recognizes only a marriage between a man...
Congressional Recess in 2 weeks What you can do to ensure the passage of UAFA
Posted by
JoseDFW 1142 days ago
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Out4Immigration is trying to schedule a visit in SF Bay Area and possibly SoCal with our congressional rep including Lofgren, Pelosi, Speier...
Bay Area family's life upended by immigration nightmare
Posted by
freedom2immigrate 1144 days ago
(http://www.edgesanfrancisco.com)
A family could be ripped apart: Twins Joriene and Jashley sit with their parents, Jay Mercado and Shirley Tan, while Jay's mother, Renee Mercado, looks on in the back in their living room.
Why We Support the March to Sacramento to Repeal Prop 8Bay Area Indymedia, CAWe were married during the 2004 Winter of Love, and we wed again last year, when California embraced Marriage Equality legally. We are a part of One Struggle, One Fight and the March to Sacramento for three important reasons. ...
DA blames Prop 8 for anti-gay violence (Bay Area Reporter)
Posted by
ExileComingHome 1144 days ago
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Bay Area ReporterDA blames Prop 8 for anti-gay violenceBay Area Reporter, CAPamela Brown, policy director for Marriage Equality USA, told the BAR that her organization recently completed a survey that listed Sacramento as one of the "hot spots" of anti-gay attacks during the Prop 8 campaign. "Sacramento was the region where we ...
Shellfish States Move Towards Marriage (San Francisco Bay Times)
Posted by
ExileComingHome 1144 days ago
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Shellfish States Move Towards MarriageSan Francisco Bay Times, CAGovernor Greenjeans has just vowed to veto the marriage equality bill so you can stop cheering that 26-4 senate vote and forget about the house hearings because the bill won’t be worth the paper its printed on once Sap for Brains gets through with it. ...
Io-wha??? (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
Posted by
ExileComingHome 1144 days ago
(http://www.sfbg.com)
San Francisco Bay GuardianIo-wha???San Francisco Bay Guardian, CADamn, I can't believe those Midwestern cornholers totally beat us bicoastal fudgepackers to the altar punch: so many delicious, delicious plot twists on the way to marriage equality. And yet compared to what's happening to so many LGBTs around the ...
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