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...
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I am a lucky love exile
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NLXile 1018 days ago
(http://www.breaktheillusion.com)
American Gays and Lesbians find refuge in the Netherlands
Posted by
NLXile 1024 days ago
(http://lotusopening.blogspot.com)
PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. From Love Exiles Foundation. Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Four hundred years after Henry Hudson first set...
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
Mecado Tan Family
Posted by
NLXile 1090 days ago
(http://loveexiles.wordpress.com)
Each of us did one or two things that we could do. And for that moment, we gave up feeling powerlessness, stopped being resigned and cynical. We know we will wake up again tomorrow as second class citiznens in the eyes of US federal law. And all we can do is take one more step. It is the only way we will win. It’s up to us.
On 23 March 2009, Lin and Martha McDevitt-Pugh of the Love Exiles Foundation had the opportunity to meet the Mercado-Tan family: two moms and their twin sons who live in Pacifica, California.
Mother Shirley Tan is an asylum seeker and was scheduled to be deported to a country she hasn’t visited in more than 20 years and where she nearly lost her life at age 14 when a cousin killed her mother and sister over an inheritance. This morning, April 23 2009, Melanie Nathan of Private Courts, who has...
On 23 March 2009, Lin and Martha McDevitt-Pugh of the Love Exiles Foundation had the opportunity to meet the Mercado-Tan family: two moms and their twin sons who live in Pacifica, California.
Mother Shirley Tan is an asylum seeker and was scheduled to be deported to a country she hasn’t visited in more than 20 years and where she nearly lost her life at age 14 when a cousin killed her mother and sister over an inheritance. This morning, April 23 2009, Melanie Nathan of Private Courts, who has...
Sex Education Bill Adds Non-Discrimination Clause for Sexual Orientation
Posted by
NLXile 1147 days ago
(http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com)
...and the Uniting American Families Act, which would provide full immigration rights to foreign nationals who are same-sex domestic partners of...
Common Sense: Don George
Posted by
NLXile 1147 days ago
(http://blog.q-notes.com)
Don George (aka Andoni) of Citizen Crain on immigration reform and the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA): Fact: it is quite likely that there will...
Same-sex partners mired in deportation 'nightmare'
Posted by
NLXile 1147 days ago
(http://www.sacbee.com)
The Uniting American Families Act is pending on behalf of thousands of gay and lesbian couples facing immigration issues.
Share this story: Bay Area mom faces deportation
Posted by
NLXile 1147 days ago
(http://twochicksnest.blogspot.com)
The Uniting American Families Act, which is currently in committee in the house and senate, would allow American citizens to sponsor their...
Gay mother of two gets a deportation delay
Posted by
NLXile 1147 days ago
(http://www.masscops.com)
A bill in Congress, the "Uniting American Families Act", would allow a U.S. citizen to sponsor a foreign same-sex partner
Shirley Tan gets deportation reprieve
Posted by
NLXile 1147 days ago
(http://www.miketidmus.com)
...of the Uniting American Families Act by Congress has got to happen sooner, not later,” said Waddling, “so that good, hardworking American...
Families destroyed by unfair immigration policy
Posted by
NLXile 1147 days ago
(http://www.dailykos.com)
Shirley Tan and Jay Mercado have lived together for 23 years and have two children.
Canada embraces 'love exiles'
Posted by
NLXile 1147 days ago
(http://www.thestar.com)
"Same-sex marriages are legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Norway and South Africa, but these jurisdictions stipulate that at least one person...
Freedom to Marry Week: Some/thing Old
Posted by
NLXile 1147 days ago
(http://twochicksnest.blogspot.com)
We would do anything to stay together. Now we join the growing number of "love exiles" who have left the U.S. in order remain together.
The Mormons Meet the Anita Bryant Effect: Gay rage concentrated
Posted by
NLXile 1147 days ago
(http://www.anotherqueerjubu.com)
These folks are heartened by the new awakening of queer rage. And these Love Exiles are organized.
We Will Work With Obama
Posted by
NLXile 1147 days ago
(http://americanrefugee.wordpress.com)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Love Exiles in Amsterdam say “We will work with Obama for GLBT rights in the US...
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