Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert, whose book Eat, Pray, Love was recently released as a film starring Julia Roberts, joined the Immigration Equality Action Fund to lobby Congress for passage of The Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), a bill to end discrimination faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans and their children, who are unable to sponsor their foreign-born partners for residency in the United States. Gilbert met with key Congressional lawmakers and called on elected leaders to pass UAFA. Gilbert’s recent best-seller, Committed, chronicles her experience as the American half of a straight, binational couple.
Pictured is Gilbert and Rachel B. Tiven, executive director of the Immigration Equality Action Fund during a Capitol Hill Press Conference joined by Congressmen Nadler (D-NY) and Honda (D-CA).
More than 36,000 LGBT binational families are impacted by current law, with nearly 17,000 of those families raising young children. In conjunction with Gilbert’s visit to Capitol Hill, the Immigration Equality Action Fund has also launched an online campaign – Engage, Lobby, Love - to encourage allies to join Gilbert and call on Congress to pass the Uniting American Families Act.
