Panel Today on Immigration With Three Others – at UNITY 12 Conference of Minority Journalists in Las Vegas

I am very excited to bring our story of the discrimination same-sex binational couples face to the table at the UNITY 12 conference today. Last year I found and joined the NLGJA – National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Then before this year’s conference, NLGJA joined UNITY – the umbrella organization of minority journalist organizations. Wow! My proposed session for NLGJA went to UNITY 12 instead. It was combined with others and now a panel on immigration is the result.
Check out the program listing here:
Immigration: Beyond the border (Thursday Aug. 2 from 2:15 to 3:30 pm)
The topic of immigration reaches far beyond America’s borders. It is large and nuanced and reaches every community, every industry and virtually every family. In fact, immigration has less to do with geographic borders as it does with politics, people and, yes, passion. Journalists of color have unique opportunities to bring these stories forward. Join us for a frank discussion on how immigration continues to change communities large and small nationwide and how journalists can better cover this important topic.

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Tomorrow I will post my talk – stay tuned!

Here’s my regular sign-off for my posts:

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Here’s my regular sign-off for blog posts…

Immigration Equality, Out4Immigration and Love Exiles Foundation are the three groups working on our issue – and the three groups who receive whatever money comes in from sales of my book, Torn Apart: United by Love, Divided by Law, Findhorn Press, 2011.

My newer project, with David W. Ross, whose new film “I Do: The Movie” will be out in June 2012, is a portrait project of LGBT binational families, United by Love, Divided by Law Portrait Project. It expands the reach of my book and will keep adding portraits as we find couples and funds to add more. We will hold events to assist the work being done for our families by Lavi Soloway and Stop the Deportations – The DOMA Project. Check out the site at

http://unitedbylovedividedbylaw.com/

and see the Facebook page at

https://www.facebook.com/unitedbylovedividedbylaw

To follow Torn Apart: United by Love, Divided by Law, go to its Facebook page at:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Torn-Apart-United-by-Love-Divided-by-Law/116343758442046

Read an excerpt of my book at this link: http://bit.ly/eIyGxh

Order online from the publisher at this link:

http://www.findhornpress.com/relationships-43/torn-apart-392.html

Elizabeth Gilbert wrote the foreword to my book. She is an ally in our fight and has suffered from the immigration situation herself as part of a binational relationship. Though she and her boyfriend were able to marry, they know what the drill was and they advocate for LGBT binational families. We like that!

Remember, too, you can follow me and what I am doing and thinking and reading on twitter   @tornapartbook

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