San Jose Mercury News, 2/8/2009: We are family, too: Vietnamese Gays and Lesbians join San Jose’s Tet parade, by Jesse Mangaliman: “Nguyen was one of 40 Vietnamese gays and lesbians from the Bay Area and other parts of California who marched during the traditional annual celebration of Tet, the lunar new year. It was only the second time in the parade’s history that gays and lesbians marched openly — and the first time that families joined them. For Vietnamese gay and lesbian groups, the event signaled a new kind of visibility and openness in a culture that traditionally views homosexuality as shameful — and something to hide.”

A recent Racialicious Blog post: When Xenophobia Meets Homophobia, by guest contributor Marisol LeBron, originally published at Nacla and Post Pomo Nuyorican Homo: “The Prop 8 fallout shows how much work remains to be done to connect the LGBT rights movement with other struggles for social justice across a spectrum of issues. Unfortunately, it may have taken the brutal murder of Ecuadoran immigrant Jose Oswaldo Sucuzhañay to highlight the invisibility of queer people of color – particularly queer immigrants – in LGBT rights discourse. His murder will hopefully provide an impetus for coalition building.”

This is an article posted on the Common Dreams website: Gay Woman Fights over Hospital Visitation Rights in Miami court, by Luara Figueroa: “A gay woman not allowed to visit her dying partner at Jackson Memorial Hospital in 2007 hopes a federal judge will allow her claims of emotional distress and negligence to go to trial.”

An article in the New Haven Independent: Camaign Puts the “T” Back in “LGBT”, by Melinda Tuhus: “Now that they’ve brought same-sex marriage to Connecticut, advocates took on a new mission to a downtown town hall meeting: protecting transgender civil rights.”

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