Gay Latino Utahns Divided Over Same-Sex Protections In Immigration Reform

Immigration Reform Poses Difficult Question For LGBT Community
HOMESTEAD, FL - MAY 11: Elena Marquez (L) holds a sign reading 'it's in your hands Mr. President' as she and others participate in a rally calling on the President Barack Obama to immediately suspend deportations and for Congress to pass an immigration reform that?s inclusive of all 11 million undocumented people in the U.S. on May 11, 2013 in Homestead, Florida. The rally is part of what is being called a rolling fast in different places throughout the nation over the course of the next two months to bring what organizers say is a moral, prophetic voice to the immigration debate. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
HOMESTEAD, FL - MAY 11: Elena Marquez (L) holds a sign reading 'it's in your hands Mr. President' as she and others participate in a rally calling on the President Barack Obama to immediately suspend deportations and for Congress to pass an immigration reform that?s inclusive of all 11 million undocumented people in the U.S. on May 11, 2013 in Homestead, Florida. The rally is part of what is being called a rolling fast in different places throughout the nation over the course of the next two months to bring what organizers say is a moral, prophetic voice to the immigration debate. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Seized by the highest-profile immigration debate in nearly three decades, the nation might swap its national pastime this summer from baseball to a bill batted around Congress by the Gang of Eight.

For gay Latino immigrants in Utah — especially those without papers known as the "undocuqueers" — the outcome could deliver double the impact: a pathway to citizenship and the equal treatment of same-sex couples through a comprehensive reform bill.

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