The State of Maine’s rejection of marriage equality at the ballot box yesterday is being heeded as a call for federal LGBT rights by activists and organizations around the US, including Out4Immigration.
The Maine vote was 53% in support of taking away civil marriage rights granted to gays and lesbians by approval of the state legislature and signed into law by the state’s governor 6 months ago. 47% of voters supported marriage equality. “Subjecting minority rights to majority vote repeatedly denies equality to LGBT families,” said Mickey Lim, vice president and co-founder of Out4Immigration, a grassroots organization that works closely with same-sex marriage groups for recognition of same-sex binational couple rights tied to federal immigration policies.
Out4Immigation advocates for same-sex binational couples, relationships in which one partner is American and
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Maine Marriage Setback a Call to Action for Federal LGBT Rights
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Dallas groups push for equality
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Ahonen-Jover, 52, and Bare, 46, agreed that the first year of President Barack Obama's administration provides an opportunity for movement on LGBT-related legislation such as repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," reforming immigration policies to include binational couples, and access to health care without discrimination.
Speier questions pro gay immigration reform strategy
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BinatUK 370 days ago
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Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo) doesn't believe including pro-gay reforms in a comprehensive immigration bill is the best strategy to win rights for binational LGBT couples. And with Congress bogged down on passing health care reform legislation, she also cautioned LGBT activists not to expect any action on the issue until 2010.
"By making the bill comprehensive it does muddy the waters," said the freshman House member, who predicted "nothing will happen this year on immigration."...
"By making the bill comprehensive it does muddy the waters," said the freshman House member, who predicted "nothing will happen this year on immigration."...
Shirley Tan, her partner Jay Mercado, and their two children will join Out4Immigration—the all volunteer, grassroots advocate for same-sex binational couples and their families—at the San Francisco 2009 Pride Parade on Sunday, June 28th. Together, they will be marching for equal immigration rights for same-sex binational couples to remain together in the U.S. by urging Congress to pass the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA).
Kerry pushes asylum status for gay man separated from spouse but (Bay Windows)
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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 ...
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 nightmare
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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.
Shellfish States Move Towards Marriage (San Francisco Bay Times)
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ExileComingHome 522 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. ...
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. ...
Io-wha??? (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
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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 ...
DA blames Prop 8 for anti-gay violence (Bay Area Reporter)
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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 ...
Marriage Bill Advances Through New Hampshire State HouseSan Francisco Bay Times, CAI hope she does, but meanwhile the bill that would prevent these human tragedies, the Uniting American Families Act, continues to languish. I suppose Congress has many more important issues on its plate at the moment. What next? ...
Kerry pushes asylum status for gay man separated from spouse, but ...Bay Windows, MAShe said Congress has almost unlimited discretion to set immigration policy, and immigration law is a complicated area of law that is outside GLAD’s realm of expertise."[Bi-national couples who have been separated] are definitely the most heartrending ...
Sen Kerry Goes To Bat For Binational Gay Couple (San Francisco Bay Times)
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San Francisco Bay TimesSen. 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 nightmare (Bay Area Reporter)
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Proud ParentingBay Area family's life upended by immigration nightmareBay Area Reporter, CAWhile Tan and Mercado face the most difficult of circumstances, federal legislation has been reintroduced in Congress that would protect binational same-sex couples. Unfortunately, it comes too late for Tan and Mercado as no action has been taken yet ...MARRIAGE EQUALITY USA, OUT4IMMIGRATION, AND LOVE EXILES REPORT ... California Chronicleall 26 news articles
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