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Monday, June 8. 2009Hope? Change? There’s a raft of life-changing civil rights just waiting to be won by the Gay, Lesbian, Transsexual, Bisexual movement in America and we need the President we helped elect to step up. Now. The tipping point, the Year One watershed that startled almost as many gay people as straight ones by its passing, was the Prop 8 amendment in California last November. Recriminations about how or why this happened have their place, but here’s the result: overnight 18,000 previously legal same sex marriages entered a new an unprecedented legal limbo, and all future same sex marriages were indefinitely postponed. That this was happening on the same night Obama was elected made it feel like living in two separate Americas simultaneously, like watching the last scene of two Shakespearean dramas, with startlingly different outcomes, superimposed, one over the other. It sucked. Continue reading "Hope? Change?" Wednesday, March 25. 2009Soul Asylum Former presidential nominee and Massachusetts State Senator John Kerry has been a long-time supporter of the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), which earned a mainstream press endorsement by The Washington Post last week, and now the outspoken Democrat has taken on the challenge of trying to overturn a federal judge's decision to send Genesio "Junior" Oliveira back to Brazil after the man was denied asylum. (Read Kerry's statement on the issue at The Huffington Post.) Oliveira claims he was raped by a Brazilian doctor, and despite the country's anti-discrimination laws, violence against gays and lesbians continues at an alarming rate, including 186 murders last year. Oliveira is married to Tim Coco, and Kerry is pressuring Attorney General Eric Holder to overrule Immigration Judge Francis Cramer's rejection of Oliveira's plea for asylum. Coco has made it a personal crusade to change U.S. law so that gay couples can sponsor their partners for permanent immigration. It's an issue that our friends over at Immigration Equality have been courageously working on, and one that's close to our hearts. Wednesday, July 18. 2007Rachel Tiven & Bill O'Reilly Discuss Gay ImmigrationWednesday, May 9. 2007UAFA reintroduction Thanks to Congressman Nadler and Senator Leahy for bringing the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) back to the Congress on Tuesday, May 8, 2007. The reintroduction of the Act could bring all same-sex couples a step closer to equal immigration rights, so citizens and permanent residents can sponsor their same-sex partners for immigration purposes. Please tell your Congresspersons and Senators to support this important Act. Continue reading "UAFA reintroduction" |
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