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Domestic violence report could lead to deportation: Your sex and gender morning roundup

November 2, 2010 - 09:00 AM
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MARIA BOLANOS, a "28-year-old undocumented immigrant from El Salvador," risks deportation after making a domestic violence report to Prince George's County police. In the Washington Post:

The call for help had disastrous consequences for Bolanos. . . Within months, she found herself ensnared in an increasingly controversial immigration enforcement program designed to deport undocumented criminals.

Bolanos now faces deportation and possible separation from her 21-month-old daughter, who was born here and is a U.S. citizen. . . . In Bolanos's case, the officer who responded to the domestic dispute at her apartment in Hyattsville later charged her with illegally selling a $10 phone card to a neighbor—an allegation she denies. The charge was eventually dropped, but by then Bolanos had been been fingerprinted and found by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be in the country illegally.

She has been told she probably will be deported after a Wednesday hearing before an immigration judge in Baltimore.

WATCH Lady Gaga fight sexual harassment, before she was famous. Gaga shows up around the 40 second mark:

The GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY has created an LGBT Studies minor, with the intention of expanding into a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Major in two years. The concentration, which is housed under the school's Women Studies program, has been in process for over a year. Sample course: "Transnational Film and LGBTQ Culture."

A GWU Italian language lecturer has been arrested on child pornography charges after he asked a school technical support employee to back up his hard drive, and the employee discovered a photograph of "a young girl being forced to have sex." More than 100,000 images were later found on the lecturer's computer, "divided in folders labeled separately for boys and girls."

TEN YEARS following Chandra Levy's death, Gary Condit continues to refuse to comment on whether he had a sexual relationship with the former intern. Under oath on the witness stand yesterday, Condit cited "privacy" concerns in refusing any sexual questioning. Condit will answer questions as to whether he murdered Levy; yesterday, he told the jury that he did not.

GAY CULTURE: "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the questions of gender and sexual identity in the making of modern American portraiture," Metro Weekly writes. The exhibit, which features works by John Singer Sargent, Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Martin, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol, is on display at the National Portrait Gallery until Feb. 13.

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