'I Carry You With Me': A gay couple's epic love story offers 'hope' for LGBTQ immigrants

It has all the makings of a classic Hollywood meet-cute. 

Twenty-five years ago, Gerardo Zabaleta was at a small gay bar in Puebla, Mexico, when he spotted a cute guy across the room. Having just come from his teaching job, he took out his laser pointer and shined it on the handsome stranger. 

"(My friend) was like, 'Someone is pointing at you with that laser!' And I was like, 'No, that's not for me,'" says Iván Garcia, Zabaleta's now-partner. "Then I saw him and was like, 'Oh, I really like this guy.' So we started having a nice conversation and the rest is history." 

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