Resources for learning more about efforts for
gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender equality
Read about Tony and Thomas and other bi-national couples
in a new book: Torn Apart by Judy Rickard
Political Action Organizations:
LGBT Immigration Equality Rights: http://imeq.us
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation: www.hrc.org
Immigration Equality: www.immigrationequality.org
Human Rights Watch: www.hrw.org
Read their 2006 publication: “Family Unvalued: Discrimination, Denial, and the Fate of Binational Same-Sex Couples under US Law”
Freedom to Marry: www.freedomtomarry.org
Marriage Equality USA: www.marriageequality.org
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has an
“Immigration Inequality Kit” for media:
www.glaad.org/immigrationinequalitykit
Out 4 Immigration: www.out4immigration.org
Read their “Brief History of LGBT and Immigration”
Love Exiles: www.loveexiles.org
Lambda Legal: www.lambdalegal.org
National Center for Lesbian Rights: www.nclrights.org
Partners Task Force for Gay and Lesbian Couples:
http://buddybuddy.com/partners.html
Equality California: www.eqca.org
Basic Rights Oregon: www.basicrights.org
Equal Rights Washington: www.equalrightswashington.org
News Articles
May 6, 2011 “Judge Gives Immigrant in Same-Sex Marriage a Reprieve From
New York Times
February 23, 2011 “Attorney General Declares DOMA Unconstitutional”
CNN
August 4, 2010 “Ruling Against Prop. 8 Could Lead to Federal Precedent on
Los Angeles Times
July 26, 2010 “New Jersey Supreme Court Declines Gay Marriage Case”
New York Times
July 16, 2010 “Same Sex Marriage Inches Toward Higher Court”
National Public Radio (NPR)
May 10, 2010 “For Same-Sex Couples, A Patchwork of Marriage Laws”
Associated Press
January 29, 2010 “Gay Marriage Trial Rests and a Key Ruling Awaits”
Time
January 11, 2010 “Prop 8 Trial Begins”
MSNBC Nightly News Video
January 18, 2010 “A Risky Proposal: Is It Too Soon to Petition the Supreme
The New Yorker
December 21, 2009 “Gays Excluded From Immigration Bill”
The Advocate
Scholarly and Political Works
Rickard, Judy. (2011). Torn Apart: United by Love, Divided by Law. Forres, Scotland: Findhorn Press.
Ball, Carlos. (2010). From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation. Boston: Beacon Press.
Nussbaum, Martha. (2010). From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law. New York: Oxford University Press.
Nussbaum, Martha. (2009). A Right to Marry: Same-Sex Marriage and Constitutional Law. Dissent, Summer, pgs 43-55.
Polikoff, Nancy D. (2008). Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law. Boston: Beacon Press.
Brewer, Paul R. (2008). Value War: Public Opinion and the Politics of Gay Rights. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.
Eskridge, William and Darren Spedale. (2006). Gay Marriage: For Better or Worse?: What We’ve Learned from the Evidence. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gilreath, Shannon. (2006). Sexual Politics: The Gay Person in America Today. Akron: University of Akron Press.
Samar, Vincent. (2005). Same-Sex Marriage: The Difficult Road Ahead. Journal of GLBT Family Studies volume 1, issue 2, pgs 137-141.
Myers, David and Letha Dawson Scanzoni. (2005). What God Has Joined Together?: A Christian Case for Gay Marriage. New York: HarperCollins.
Buhrke, Robin A. (2003). Honoring and Protecting Relationships. In M. R. Stevenson & J. C. Cogan (Eds.), Everyday Activism: A Handbook for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People and Their Allies. New York: Routledge.
Eskridge, William. (2002). Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press.
For more essays and scholarly works, see the list of “Key Marriage Articles”
provided by Partners Task Force for Gay and Lesbian Couples:
