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To a mayor from a mayor in exile (Love Exiles)
Posted by
igualdad 901 days ago
(http://loveexiles.wordpress.com)
This Wallet is Now Closed (Preparing Our Exile)
Posted by
UnitedByLove 931 days ago
(http://preparingourexile.blogspot.com)
I watched helplessly on Tuesday night as yet another vote was held on whether or not I deserve equal rights in this country. I watched my countrymen once again say that I am not quite human enough to deserve the same respect, dignity and rights that they enjoy.
I watched President Obama, the self-described "fierce advocate" for gay rights, very very carefully word a statement that was at best lukewarm in his support for those on the side of equality in Maine. I spoke face to face with my Congressman who looked helpless to me while he explained it would be difficult to pass the Uniting American Families Act. I still have the letter he sent me when I wrote him to ask him to co-sponsor that bill. He claimed to support it, but refused to co-sponsor.
o more will I sit back and accept your promises, your urgings to wait for equality. I'm sick of it. Stand up and get
I watched President Obama, the self-described "fierce advocate" for gay rights, very very carefully word a statement that was at best lukewarm in his support for those on the side of equality in Maine. I spoke face to face with my Congressman who looked helpless to me while he explained it would be difficult to pass the Uniting American Families Act. I still have the letter he sent me when I wrote him to ask him to co-sponsor that bill. He claimed to support it, but refused to co-sponsor.
o more will I sit back and accept your promises, your urgings to wait for equality. I'm sick of it. Stand up and get
Opinions on issues regarding the LGBT community: Marriage Equality, Don't Ask Don't Tell DADT, Defense Of Marriage Act DOMA, Respect For Marriage Act, and LGBT Immigration issues and the Uniting American Families Act UAFA ...
How can we have any dignity, honor or pride in ourselves if we validate this continued process of ballot box terrorism? How can we stand tall next to each other if we explain away another's cowardliness? How can we allow people to dehumanize our relationships and our very integrity if we give people passes to sit out the battle for our very freedom? No longer are political timelines a reason for delay, no longer are incremental approaches acceptable and no longer can the political process expect us to be patient and wait our turn. Our turn came long ago and there will be no more waiting....
How can we have any dignity, honor or pride in ourselves if we validate this continued process of ballot box terrorism? How can we stand tall next to each other if we explain away another's cowardliness? How can we allow people to dehumanize our relationships and our very integrity if we give people passes to sit out the battle for our very freedom? No longer are political timelines a reason for delay, no longer are incremental approaches acceptable and no longer can the political process expect us to be patient and wait our turn. Our turn came long ago and there will be no more waiting....
I am a lucky love exile
Posted by
NLXile 1018 days ago
(http://www.breaktheillusion.com)
Labels are for clothes, but I recently adopted a new one: Love exile. Love exiles are trans-national couples that are unable to live together due to..
Man built borders but the universe created love; homophobic ordinances, restrictions and regulations can’t quell the unquellable. Nonetheless, a change in policy could certainly make things a bit easier for the hundreds of thousands of couples in need of a break.
If you’re angry, direct your passions into something productive. If you’re from the United States, you can send a pre-written letter to your representatives here. If you’re not from the United States, spend a few minutes on Google to connect with your national LGBT immigration organization...
Man built borders but the universe created love; homophobic ordinances, restrictions and regulations can’t quell the unquellable. Nonetheless, a change in policy could certainly make things a bit easier for the hundreds of thousands of couples in need of a break.
If you’re angry, direct your passions into something productive. If you’re from the United States, you can send a pre-written letter to your representatives here. If you’re not from the United States, spend a few minutes on Google to connect with your national LGBT immigration organization...
Preparing Our Exile Immigration Law Options
Posted by
Fight4theRight 1042 days ago
(http://preparingourexile.blogspot.com)
So let's talk for a minute about what laws would need to change for Alex and me to stay here....It's possible that something will change, but I really don't expect to see movement on these issues unless Obama wins a second term. We're quickly running out of runway for this term, because gay issues will be swept under the rught in 2010 for the mid-term elections, and after that it will be Presidential re-election time, so if it doesn't happen this year, it likely won't happen until late 2012 or sometime in 2013.
As a couple, Alex and I don't have that kind of time. That's the reason for this blog, and that's the reason that we're preparing our exile....
THERE ARE 1,138 FEDERAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATED WITH MARRIAGE. BECAUSE WE ARE GAY, ONE OF THOSE RIGHTS WILL FORCE US TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY OR LIVE APART. THIS BLOG WILL COVER OUR JOURNEY.
As a couple, Alex and I don't have that kind of time. That's the reason for this blog, and that's the reason that we're preparing our exile....
THERE ARE 1,138 FEDERAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATED WITH MARRIAGE. BECAUSE WE ARE GAY, ONE OF THOSE RIGHTS WILL FORCE US TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY OR LIVE APART. THIS BLOG WILL COVER OUR JOURNEY.
Summer of Love in Exile
Posted by
NLXile 1042 days ago
(http://loveexiles.wordpress.com)
Love Exiles will present a workshop during the Outgames in Copenhagen, on July 27th, and on 1 August will be present on the I Do Boat in the Amsterdam Canal Pride. We also participated in a Dutch/US exchange during Gay Pride at the end of June. The urgent need to redress discrimination in US immigration law is the main theme of all events.
The Love Exiles workshop at the World Outgames will be held on 27 July 2009, 15:30 – 17:00. Panelists are Martha McDevitt-Pugh, Bob Bragar and Gordon Stewart. I will chair the event. We will tell people how it is for us to be forced to live outside our countries of origin, in order to be with our spouses or partners. We will examine how countries such as the Netherlands handle the issues that face same-sex couples, with suggestions that other countries can follow. The workshop will deal with the challenge of changing cult
The Love Exiles workshop at the World Outgames will be held on 27 July 2009, 15:30 – 17:00. Panelists are Martha McDevitt-Pugh, Bob Bragar and Gordon Stewart. I will chair the event. We will tell people how it is for us to be forced to live outside our countries of origin, in order to be with our spouses or partners. We will examine how countries such as the Netherlands handle the issues that face same-sex couples, with suggestions that other countries can follow. The workshop will deal with the challenge of changing cult
Check Your Marriage at the Border
Posted by
OurHero-Tan 1064 days ago
(http://exiledefacto.blogspot.com)
Several years ago, after attending the wedding of a distant acquaintance and listening to the pastor's sermon about the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman, Sarah and I made a decision that we wouldn't attend any weddings unless 1) it was the wedding of a very close relative, or 2) it was the wedding of a couple who saw our marriage with the same seriousness and as having the same weight as any official heterosexual marriage. The second scenario involved a lot of imagining how certain people would behave if they attended a same-sex wedding ceremony. It's not as simple as it sounds to determine whether or not someone actually would view such a non-traditional wedding as legitimate.
Sure, we know a fair amount of individuals who claim they would take a same-sex wedding seriously, but most of these people, in their desperation to show just how okay they are with tho
Sure, we know a fair amount of individuals who claim they would take a same-sex wedding seriously, but most of these people, in their desperation to show just how okay they are with tho
Green Card Laws Force Married Gay Couples into Exile
Posted by
BrenDAL 1135 days ago
(http://current.com)
...to sponsor your spouse for a green card, leaving binational gay couples ... difference to us now because it doesn’t affect immigration...
Gay Lovers in Exile
Posted by
freedom2immigrate 1136 days ago
(http://www.thedailybeast.com)
Getty Images Recent same-sex marriage victories don't include the right to sponsor your spouse for a green card, leaving binational gay couples wondering where exactly home is.
Wedding Planning in Exile: Shirley Tan and Jay Mercado
Posted by
UnitedByLove 1143 days ago
(http://brideinexile.blogspot.com)
Right now, 95 Congressmen are co-sponsoring HR1024, the Uniting American Families Act, which will eliminate discrimination against same-sex couples in immigration cases, and 17 Senators are co-sponsoring the Senate equivalent, S424. ...
Marriage Equality USA, Out4Immigration, Love Exile Report: Shirley Tan
Posted by
SFbeat 1145 days ago
(http://www.indybay.org)
Jackie Speier [CA-12], Senator Dianne Feinstein, and Immigration Equality's Julie Kruse, Ms Tan, her wife of 23 years, U.S. citizen Jay...
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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.