Late last month, Congressmen Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL, 4th) and Mike Quigley (D-IL, 5th) met with leaders of the Chicago’s LGBTQ Immigrant Rights Coalition, an emerging alliance between members of the LGBT and immigrant communities who find themselves in a political struggle for basic rights. The event was held at Adler School of Professional Psychology and was moderated by Mona Noriega, a longtime activist leader in Chicago’s LGBT community and the current Commissioner of the Department of Human Relations.

Gutiérrez and Quigley, along with leaders from various LGBT and immigrant advocacy groups, spoke of ways in which the battles for LGBT rights and immigrant rights are linked and how the two campaigns can work together to achieve more effective outcomes.