Immigration Equality (organization)
Immigration Equality, founded in 1994 as the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, is a United States advocacy organization working for equal rights for LGBT and HIV-positive individuals with respect to policies maintained by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service). It is headquartered in New York and has chapters in thirteen other U.S. cities.
Immigration Equality is the only national LGBT immigration organization in the United States. According to Andrew Sullivan, it does "the lion's share of work in advocating for equal treatment for gay spouses and HIV-positive immigrants."
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