For the second time, RafiQ Salleh sits in Singapore waiting for a visa renewal as his business, his spouse in Dallas suffer from the separationDAVID TAFFET | Staff Writer taffet@dallasvoice.comFORCED SEPARATION | Cannon Flowers, left, is back home in Dallas, waiting for the U.S. Embassy in Singapore to once again clear his partner RafiQ Salleh, right, to return to the U.S. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice)RafiQ Salleh has lived in the United States legally since moving here in 1998 with his partner Cannon Flowers. But now, for the second time in two years, Salleh has been prevented from returning to the U.S. after returning to his native Singapore to pick up his visa.In 2008, Salleh opened Chill Bubble Tea across the Tollway from the Galleria in North Dallas. He was approved for an E2 entrepreneurial visa, had to return to his home country to pick it up.He traveled to Singapore but was stop
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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.
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Lane Hudson of the Huffington Post wrote an awesome article regarding the LGBT civil rights movement.
I urge you to go and read his thoughts, and if you feel the same about these principles below, help make this declaration go viral. Send it to everyone and anyone, all the city, state, and federal politicians. Send it to your neighbors, your friends, your family, and let them know this: This is more than just DADT or DOMA; this is about equality. We don’t just want these rights for ourselves, our families. We demand the freedom of all people in every nation to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. Our fight is all of our fights. People have to stand up and say they care about their fellow man on these issues and all issues of human rights.
Readers globally, please help this go viral. I know this pertains particularly to America, and Obama, but speak up for those protesters i
I urge you to go and read his thoughts, and if you feel the same about these principles below, help make this declaration go viral. Send it to everyone and anyone, all the city, state, and federal politicians. Send it to your neighbors, your friends, your family, and let them know this: This is more than just DADT or DOMA; this is about equality. We don’t just want these rights for ourselves, our families. We demand the freedom of all people in every nation to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. Our fight is all of our fights. People have to stand up and say they care about their fellow man on these issues and all issues of human rights.
Readers globally, please help this go viral. I know this pertains particularly to America, and Obama, but speak up for those protesters i
As anyone who has been following my blogging here will know, I've been pushing very hard to hold folks accountable for a stunningly absent effort to end discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in our code of laws. It's become even more important to me as we elected a visionary man to the Presidency and a wide Democratic Majority in both houses of Congress.
Lately, there has been increasing public discourse on issues like Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Marriage Equality, and the Defense of Marriage Act, among others. For the first time, mainstream media such as Jake Tapper and Bill Press are asking tough questions in the White House briefing room. Things are definitely changing. Except they're not really changing.
It's about raising the bar for all stakeholders: LGBT people, allies, organizations, politicians, the media, any anyone else wit
Lately, there has been increasing public discourse on issues like Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Marriage Equality, and the Defense of Marriage Act, among others. For the first time, mainstream media such as Jake Tapper and Bill Press are asking tough questions in the White House briefing room. Things are definitely changing. Except they're not really changing.
It's about raising the bar for all stakeholders: LGBT people, allies, organizations, politicians, the media, any anyone else wit
Group to Celebrate One-Year Anniversary at San Francisco Pride Parade on June 24 [PR.com - June 21, 2007]
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