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DESCRIPTION:Community Forum on LGBT Immigration Rights: How U.S. Immigration Law 
 Affects Same-Sex Binational Couples, People with HIV/AIDS and Transgendered 
 Individuals \n\nThe Forum will provide an opportunity for the community to 
 ask questions and explore issues regarding immigration rights for lesbian, 
 gay, bisexual, and transgendered people. The forum will address the 
 discriminatory impact current U.S. immigration law has on binational 
 same-sex couples, those with HIV/AIDS and transgendered immigrants, asylum 
 issues, and visa requirements for work, students, and investors. \n\nLGBT 
 immigrants face specific barriers to life in the United States that are 
 often not addressed by either the larger immigrant rights movement or the 
 LGBT community. For example, when immigrant rights activists speak of 
 respecting "family unity" there is no discussion about the protection of 
 LGBT families, and the issues that they are facing. Similarly, many in the 
 LGBT community are unaware of the discrimination in immigration law that 
 prohibits a U.S. citizen from sponsoring their same-sex partner for a green 
 card or denies a foreign person with HIV/AIDS the right to enter the 
 country. LGBT immigrants and their American partners face both homophobia 
 and xenophobia under current U.S. immigration law.\n\nOrganizations 
 presenting include Out4Immigration, National Center for Lesbian Rights 
 (NCLR), Queers for Economic Justice, and Bay Area Lawyers for Individual 
 Freedom (BALIF). A panel of immigration lawyers will be available for 
 individual general questions.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/03/18326152.php
SUMMARY:Community Forum on LGBT Immigration Rights
LOCATION:LGBT Community Center\n1800 Market St.\nSan Francisco, CA 94102\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/03/18326152.php
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