For me, I still want to see UAFA passed, but this article helps me realize why I am more in line with CIR, rather than UAFA. Ben and I have more to benefit from CIR than we do UAFA, as I understand it. But why should I have to choose? I want both. If 20 other countries see gays as equal when it comes to immigration, why can't we? I feel that it is similar to how the Dream Act is separate from CIR, yet it doesn't mean that we should choose between one or the other, or wait for one before the other. I also feel that gays shouldn't be so critical of this article just because the author doesn't believe in marriage, for anyone, or that the UAFA isn't the miracle it is touted as. I believe that it should be incorporated into CIR, or as a stand-alone bill. I disagree with it in that I feel it should help all gay binational couples without penalization, regardless of the legal status of the fore
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I recently began my stint as a regular contributor on queercents.com. The blog, devoted to queers and money, has a tagline that reads: "We're here, we're queer, and we're not going shopping without coupons." My first post was about the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), widely touted by many in the gay community as the gay immigration bill. I work on and write about immigration a lot, and it made sense that a subject so intimately connected to labor issues should be discussed on queercents. To date, there has been no widespread discussion on UAFA. Instead, like gay marriage, UAFA has been thrust down our collective queer throat as something we should all support. My piece, to the best of my knowledge, is among the very, very few to explicitly critique UAFA. The immigration scholar Eithne Luibhéid has written about UAFA in a special issue of GLQ (14:2-3), but it's not available to a g
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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.