Key Points
I left New York 14 years ago, before same-sex marriage was legalized inthe US..
In 2017, two years after the Obergefell v. Hodges decision made marriage equality the law of the land in the US, I met the woman who went on to be my wife..
And yet, its lack of adequate legal frameworks for LGBTQ+ folks meant that Erin and I could not apply as a family for permanent residency, access fertility treatments such as IVF, or sponsor each other for dependent visas if one of us lost our jobs...
After two years of applications, documents, medical tests, close to $4,000 in fees, and lots of bureaucratic processes, the country that had turned me down all those years ago finally let me back in..
Last year's chilling overturn of Roe v Wade and Justice Clarence Thomas' troubling remarks about needing to revisit the same-sex marriage decision make me worry that the very rights that have legally brought me to this country can easily be reconsidered...
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