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Article: It's cooler in Canada.(gay emigration)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- December 7, 2004
- Author:
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Last year Sarah Rose Werner was so fed up with the way GLBT Americans were being treated that she renounced her U.S. citizenship.
She moved to St. John, Canada, from Portland, Maine, in 1998 and received her Canadian citizenship in 2001. The longer she lived outside America, the stranger it seemed to her as a place for gay men and lesbians to live, says the self-employed Werner. "I've never had a problem [in Canada] with people dealing with me as an individual. The center of the political spectrum in Canada is far to the left of the U.S."
While most GLBT Americans won't be ripping up their U.S. citizenship papers, there is evidence they would feel more ...