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India’s Supreme Court Re-Criminalizes Gay Sex
In a shockingly poor decision, the Indian Supreme Court has reversed the July 2009 ruling of the Delhi High Court decriminalising gay sex between consenting adults. In doing so, India’s Supreme Court has recriminalized gay sex in India, rendering almost 20 Read More …
Married
Yesterday, we had a paparazzi wedding ceremony at the Lutheran Church of Reformation in Washington D.C. It was nonetheless, lovely to share our love with so many people, including all our badass friends from the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, and the same-sex binational Read More …
Post-DOMA – How Can LGBT Persons Benefit Under Current Immigration Laws?
With the Defense of Marriage Act dead, marriage equality provides more than 1,100 federal benefits previously unavailable to same-sex spouses. I’m pretty sure that is an undercount given I can think of a hundred different immigration benefits alone. There are more than 24,000 Read More …
How Pinkwashing Masks the Retrograde Effects of Immigration Reform
As the Senate gears up to introduce immigration reform bill, keep in mind what is not in the legislation. Justin Feldman and I co-wrote this piece after mutually observing the appropriation of queer undocumented youth and LGBT organizations for comprehensive Read More …
How Queer Undocumented Youth Built the Immigrant Rights Movement
I don’t usually give a damn to what DC immigration groups do because ain’t nobody got time for that. That is true until someone tries to re-write my history. And that is precisely what straight, white, cisgender and clueless male Read More …