Rachel Tiven

HuffPo Impact Premiere: A New Documentary from Immigration Equality

Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bi-National LGBT Immigration, Rachel Tiven, Stewart Thorndike, Shirley Tan, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Jay Mercado, Binational Couples, Immigration Equality, Immigration Equality Action Fund, Uniting American Families Act, Video, Impact News
Steve Ralls

Lesbian and gay couples are frequently discriminated against under immigration law, and this inequality is literally ripping families apart.

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Come As You Are: The End of America's HIV Ban

Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Gordon Smith, HIV Travel Ban, Immigration, Rachel Tiven, Immigration Equality, Barbara Lee, John Kerry, Politics News
Steve Ralls

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.

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A "Penultimate Step" in the Fight to End the HIV Travel Ban

Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Health and Human Services, Rachel Tiven, Andrew Sullivan, John Kerry, President Obama, HIV Travel Ban, Immigration Equality, Barbara Lee, Politics News
Steve Ralls

The Department of Health and Human Services has issued regulations that would end the United States' decades-old HIV travel and immigration ban.

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We Are Tearing Families Apart, When We Should Be Uniting Them

Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Rachel Tiven, Barbara Boxer, Shirley Tan, People Magazine, Jay Mercado, Dianne Feinstein, Gay Couples, Immigration Equality, Politics News
Steve Ralls

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.

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