{"id":1754,"date":"2003-09-19T12:12:46","date_gmt":"2003-09-20T02:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/19\/gay-couple-kept-out-of-us\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T16:15:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:15:48","slug":"gay-couple-kept-out-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/19\/gay-couple-kept-out-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay couple kept out of US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13302,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/19\\\/international\\\/americas\\\/19CANA.html?tntemail1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13303,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\\\/eyv\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/us_border_guard.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050314033310\\\/http:\\\/\\\/brokengoalie.typepad.com:80\\\/eyv\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/us_border_guard.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 09:14:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 04:37:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 04:37:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From the New York Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/19\/international\/americas\/19CANA.html?tntemail1\" title=\"Married Gay Canadian Couple Barred From U.S.\">Married Gay Canadian Couple Barred From U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  A married gay couple on their way from Canada to a human rights conference in Georgia were not allowed to enter the United States today because the two men insisted on filling out a single Customs clearance form declaring themselves a family.<\/p>\n<p>  Mr.\u00a0Bourassa said he and his partner, Joe Varnell, first approached the United States immigration desk at Pearson Airport in Toronto and an officer stamped their forms. But when they went to a Customs agent for final clearance, the agent would not accept a joint declaration.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;He said same-sex marriage is not recognized by the United States of America and we would have to enter the country as single individuals,&#8221; Mr.\u00a0Bourassa said. A supervisor agreed when Mr.\u00a0Bourassa objected.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\/eyv\/2003\/09\/us_border_guard.html\" title=\"U.S. Border Guards Halt Gay Couple\">Tina<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A married gay couple on their way from Canada to a human rights conference in Georgia were not allowed to enter the United States today because the two men insisted on filling out a single Customs clearance form declaring themselves a family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}