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Paull Shin: Could an Asian American be standing in the way of Equal Rights?

Sun, 01/22/2012 - 10:19

The Washington State legislature begins debate on a marriage equality bill tomorrow. It's a bill that, if passed, would make Washington the seventh state to offer equal marriage rights to its gay and lesbian citizens on a state level. (Full equal rights will require the removal of the federal-level Defense of Marriage Act.)


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DOMA Deportations Could Stop: More Couples Making Headlines

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 11:27

It has been an incredible summer for same-sex binational couples, with numerous cases, rulings and directives that may signal the beginning of the end of DOMA-based deportations.


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USCIS: Allow Love, and Say Yes to Keeping Our Families in the US

Thu, 03/31/2011 - 19:47

by Chris Barnett, cross-posted from Daily Kos and Out4Immigration's blog

This posting is dedicated to Gina, who is soon exiling herself from her home on the West Coast to be with her partner in the UK. We should be ashamed to let ourselves lose this good citizen as she does what she must for herself, and for love.


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Calvin Say needs to grow a backbone

Sun, 01/24/2010 - 01:21

Why can't Democrats learn how to fight for anything? Recently, the Hawaiian Senate passed a civil union bill by a margin of 18-7. The measure now moves to the State House where the Democrats outnumber Republicans 45-6 and passage is almost certainly guaranteed. However, the House Speaker Democrat Calvin Say says he may not even bring it up for a vote because he may not have the votes to override an anticipated veto by Republican Governor Linda Lingle.


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Anti-Gay Bill Tam sounds like a closet case

Thu, 01/14/2010 - 22:06
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It's no secret that the biggest homophobes are often also the biggest closet cases. Just look at people like Reverend Ted Haggard, Senator Larry Craig and most gay bashers. Hak-Shing William Tam, one of the most vocal supporters of California's Prop 8 and one of the original defendants in the federal trial currently going on, might just be one of these self-haters.


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Urge Sen Schumer and Rep Lofgren to include LGBT Families in their Comprehensive Immigration Bill.

Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:01

from LGBT Immigration Rights on change.org 

The New York Times reported on Nov 13th, 2009, that White House will start the push for Immigration Reform early next year (White House to Begin Push on Immigration Overhaul in 2010).


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Who Gets Blamed for Maine Losing Gay Marriage?

Tue, 11/10/2009 - 10:05

Now we have Maine rejecting marriage equality. The results in Maine, a state that is 95.3% white, make it clear that we can't blame the people of color who live there. So who do we blame? My hunch is that rural white voters are on the hook. But the blame placed on rural white voters will be very different in its tenor and tone than Prop 8.


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Election Results

Tue, 11/03/2009 - 16:48
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Today's the big election day in parts of the country. We're keep an eye on results from New York City where several Asian Americans including John Liu, Kevin Kim, Margaret Chin, Peter Koo and Yen Chou are up for election, as well as Maine and Washington with their marriage equality referendums. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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California to ban divorce?

Tue, 10/27/2009 - 06:57

I guess it was just a matter of time. The anti-gay-marriage crowd has received the approval from California Secretary of State Debra Bowen to begin collecting signatures to put an initiative on the 2010 ballot that would ban divorce in the state.


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National Equality March, Events, and Obama's Address on LGBT Rights

Tue, 10/13/2009 - 01:55
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The last time us gays marched on Washington was the semi-disastrous march in 2000 organized by the HRC. Before that was the 1993 march when I was 12. This year and this march was our time; the newly dubbed "prop 8" generation. This year's march was not without controversy with internal naysayers and questioners all the way to the top including Barney Frank.


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