All posts tagged "immigration"
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An American Dream
Imagine this: Your parents bring you here at a young age and put you in school. You are asked to learn a new language while...
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The Importance of the Timeline in the Prop 8 Appeal
Much attention has been paid to the news on Friday, August 20, the California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman (R) told the Sacremento Bee that she...
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Obama’s Immigration Speech Audience to Include LGBT Group
President Obama plans to give what the White House is billing as an address regarding the need for comprehensive immigration reform at American University in...
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''LGBT People Know''
On April 23, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) signed Senate Bill 1070, the nation's most stringent state immigration enforcement bill, into law. On Tuesday, April...
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Immigration Insult
It's been busy in Washington lately. An ENDA sit-in, White House arrests for DADT, marriage equality, Kathy Griffin, the tea-baggers' return, health care in Congress,...
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Cruel Countdown
One way to look at bi-national couples, couples of differing nationalities, is as a booming business. Enter ''mail order brides'' into nearly any search engine...
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Welcome to Washington
Through all the barriers to immigration, all the legal wrangling that comes with manmade international borders, one institution has seemed superior: marriage. Even at the...
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Asylum Granted
Even though his face was hidden behind a curtain, and a scrambler used to disguise his voice, Korab Zuka still felt anxious about taking part...
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Branching Out
The D.C. Chapter of Immigration Equality will host a reception and fundraiser in support of same-sex, bi-national couples, and GLBT or HIV-positive asylum seekers, on...
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Safe Haven
At 22, Gramoz Prestreshi says he now has a reason to live. ''I'm in a safe country,'' he says, ''I can be just who I...
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New Year, New Mix
The local Asian/Pacific-Islander GLBT community is an expansive mix, reflecting cultures from Pakistan to Fiji, from the tropics to the high Himalaya. The nearly infinite...
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Screening for Staff
It's not always easy to see the problems other people face. For gays and lesbians who were born in the United States, for example, it...
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Revealing struggles
Dilcia Molina is not a criminal. Yet in Honduras, where she was born and raised, the 42-year-old lesbian and mother of two says she was...
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Go East!
AQUA co-chair Joseph Truong Some say that gay jokes are the last socially acceptable form of discrimination, but most people think nothing of laughing at...
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Boxed In
Tim Miller Tim Miller is feeling a little guilty. ''I used to be very pooh-poohing on the gays in the military issue,'' admits the performance...
