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  • Obama’s Immigration Speech Audience to Include LGBT Group

    By on June 30, 2010

    President Obama plans to give what the White House is billing as an address regarding the need for comprehensive immigration reform at American University in...

  • ''LGBT People Know''

    By on April 27, 2010

    On April 23, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) signed Senate Bill 1070, the nation's most stringent state immigration enforcement bill, into law. On Tuesday, April...

  • Immigration Insult

    By on March 24, 2010

    It's been busy in Washington lately. An ENDA sit-in, White House arrests for DADT, marriage equality, Kathy Griffin, the tea-baggers' return, health care in Congress,...

  • Cruel Countdown

    By on July 15, 2009

    One way to look at bi-national couples, couples of differing nationalities, is as a booming business. Enter ''mail order brides'' into nearly any search engine...

  • Welcome to Washington

    By on January 28, 2009

    Through all the barriers to immigration, all the legal wrangling that comes with manmade international borders, one institution has seemed superior: marriage. Even at the...

  • Asylum Granted

    By on March 5, 2008

    Even though his face was hidden behind a curtain, and a scrambler used to disguise his voice, Korab Zuka still felt anxious about taking part...

  • Branching Out

    By on February 6, 2008

    The D.C. Chapter of Immigration Equality will host a reception and fundraiser in support of same-sex, bi-national couples, and GLBT or HIV-positive asylum seekers, on...

  • Safe Haven

    By on May 16, 2007

    At 22, Gramoz Prestreshi says he now has a reason to live. ''I'm in a safe country,'' he says, ''I can be just who I...

  • New Year, New Mix

    By on May 2, 2007

    The local Asian/Pacific-Islander GLBT community is an expansive mix, reflecting cultures from Pakistan to Fiji, from the tropics to the high Himalaya. The nearly infinite...

  • Screening for Staff

    By on April 4, 2007

    It's not always easy to see the problems other people face. For gays and lesbians who were born in the United States, for example, it...

  • Revealing struggles

    By on March 21, 2007

    Dilcia Molina is not a criminal. Yet in Honduras, where she was born and raised, the 42-year-old lesbian and mother of two says she was...

  • Go East!

    By on May 14, 2003

    AQUA co-chair Joseph Truong Some say that gay jokes are the last socially acceptable form of discrimination, but most people think nothing of laughing at...

  • Boxed In

    By on July 10, 2002

    Tim Miller Tim Miller is feeling a little guilty. ''I used to be very pooh-poohing on the gays in the military issue,'' admits the performance...