About Last Night

Thanks to all of you who came to the Immigration Equality Awards and fundraiser in Chelsea last night. It became a standing room only event, and raised around $200,000. Listening to my fellow honoree, Stacey-Ann Chin, was a particular pleasure. Funny and acerbic and self-aware, she nonetheless managed to convey what it is for some people around the world to live as gay or bi or transgender. In Jamaica, her homeland, to be gay is to live with a risk of constant physical danger, along with psychological and spiritual etiolation. Immigration Equality has rescued dozens of gay asylum-seekers, fleeing regimes murderously intent on abusing them and their loved ones. It has also done a huge amount to raise awareness of the US’s still-standing ban on any and all HIV-positive tourists, visitors and immigrants. I was really honored to be there. And you can still donate here.