House GOP To Defend DOMA For Separating Same-Sex Binational Couples
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans will intervene in a lawsuit that would keep same-sex couples from being pulled apart -- even separated to different co...
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans will intervene in a lawsuit that would keep same-sex couples from being pulled apart -- even separated to different co...
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.08.2012
While the White House has said it cannot approve green cards for lesbian and gay spouses because of DOMA, what it has failed to tell the LGBT community is that it can hold those applications -- rather than deny them -- as the courts and Congress decide DOMA's ultimate fate.
Erwin de Leon | Posted 04.18.2012
Clement Lee, a legal fellow at Immigration Equality who represents detained LGBT and HIV-positive immigrants, knows the plight of LGBT individuals trapped in the detention system very well. He answered my questions over email.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 02.10.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Defense of Marriage Act is intact, but at least two same-sex married couples have been granted a reprieve, at least temporarily, fro...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.19.2011
Benjamin Anderson, 55, was born in the United States, served in the Coast Guard, and considers himself a strong patriot. He's moving to Italy next mon...
Steve Ralls | Posted 11.12.2011
Like most Americans, Bradford Wells never dreamed the U.S. government would try to force his husband out of the country. But because Wells and his Australian husband, Anthony Makk, are a gay couple, that is exactly the reality they faced.
Steve Ralls | Posted 08.06.2011
Unlike straight Americans, who have the ability to sponsor their spouse for residency, lesbian and gay couples in the same situation have few legal options for remaining together. Many are forced into exile, leaving the United States entirely.
Jeffrey Campagna | Posted 05.25.2011
Immigration advocates are seizing upon Obama's decision not the defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which previously was the only thing standing between a same-sex couple and a green card.
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011
The President was right to call on Congress to cross partisan lines and address immigration reform. Doing so makes good sense for families and the economy.
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011
Roi Whaley probably never imagined the United States government would play a role in ripping his family apart. The Gulfport, Mississippi resident h...
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011
By now, there probably aren't many people who don't know Elizabeth Gilbert's life story. The best-selling author, who traveled millions of miles in w...
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011
Unlike their straight neighbors, gay Americans do not have the ability to sponsor their spouses or partners for residency in the United States. As a result, many of them are facing imminent separation.
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011
The LGBT family, like the American family, includes immigrants.The UAFA bill would allow LGBT Americans to sponsor their foreign-born partners so they could remain together in the U.S.
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011
This evening in Arizona, a young, gay man is literally putting his life on the line. In today's Arizona, the fact that Mohammad Abdollahi is willing ...
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011
Lesbian and gay couples are frequently discriminated against under immigration law, and this inequality is literally ripping families apart.
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011
Beginning today, the United States' decades-old HIV Travel and Immigration Ban will be a relic of the past, and the stigma and discrimination it has engendered around the world will, with any luck, begin to fade, too.
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011
Organizers say they are expecting tens of thousands -- if not hundreds of thousands -- of members of the LGBT community and their supporters on Sunday. But one couple will be notably absent.
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011
Steve and Joe, despite the life they have built together, face separation before year's end because of the country's blatantly discriminatory LGBT immigration policies.
The Washington Blade | Posted 05.25.2011
Applicants for Justice Department internships and honors programs may have been rejected based on their membership in LGBT groups during the Bush admi...
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011
The Department of Health and Human Services has issued regulations that would end the United States' decades-old HIV travel and immigration ban.
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011
Why is the United States government spending so much time - and so much taxpayer money - tearing this family apart? Simply put, because Shirley and Jay are a lesbian couple.
Mike Alvear | Posted 11.17.2011
After 5 years, we agreed not so much to break up but to stop trying to get back together. It was mutual. But the pictures hurt. Not because of what could be, but what once was.
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011
Earlier this year, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Gordon Smith (R-OR), along with Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California, led a successful and histor...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.09.2012