Five Couples Ask Court to Recognize Families for U.S. Immigration Purpose The Obama administration said it officially will no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act. However that’s not stopping the legal challenges to bring it to a legal head. (The Advocate): Five couples — one of whom first met more than 30 years ago, another [...]

It’s an open thread! Pleeeeease feel free to chat, blogwhore, and link-share in the comment thread… So, this is what my cartoon sockpuppet Bookworm Bob have been looking at since our last This & That post. • By Vincent P. Martin, Minneapolis Immigration Lawyer, in the article/PDF onJD Supra entitled Transgender Marriage Based Immigration: …Are [...]

It’s nice to see that Mittens continues his flip-floppery. While he tried to deny his campaign’s pro-LGBT stance back in the day when he was running for the Senate against Ted Kennedy and it distributed a flier proving so, the latest maneuver is the craven embrace of a homophobic elected official from Kansas. Kris Kobach [...]

When I saw the headline over at Facing South, I had no idea that the nativist batsh*ttery has run off the rails into complete batsh*ttery. The brains down in Louisiana have decided to throw a tantrum over the fact that the U.S. census attempts to count all people in the country, regardless of immigration status. [...]

Immigration is an issue that touches the LGBT community directly.  Some LGBT people are immigrants, some are assumed to be immigrants because of their appearance, some are undocumented, some like me are married to “aliens” (gotta love that term) who we are unable to sponsor for citizenship because of DOMA.  But even at a more [...]

No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens. For me personally, it comes down to integrity — theirs as individuals and [...]