LOS ANGELES ? On Augt 24, the Nth Circu Court of Appeals granted asylum to Geovani Hernanz-Montiel. After beg expelled om school, beaten by a mob and sexually asslted by police his Mexin homeland, the 21-year-old gay man sought asylum the Uned Stat. The Board of Immigratn Appeals (BIA) rejected Hernanz-Montiel's asylum claim, statg that he was
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LDG RECENT ASYLUM DECISN FOR GAY MAN
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After beg expelled om school, beaten by a mob and sexually asslted by police his Mexin homeland, the 21-year-old gay man sought asylum the Uned Stat. "In Mexi, if a man has an effemate appearance, voice, or mannerisms, everyone nsirs him gay beyond a shadow of a doubt, " said Lambda Legal Defense Fund Supervisg Attorney Jon W. Wallace Tashima said, "We nclu as a matter of law that gay men wh female sexual inti Mexi nstute a 'particular social group' and that Geovanni is a member of that group.
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The State Department has intified Mexi as one of the untri where gay men and lbians are very likely to be victims of vlence. Effemate gay men particular are sgled out for ostracizatn and anti-gay abe Mexi. The ACLU of Southern California was joed by Lambda Legal Defense and Edutn Fund, the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn, and the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights filg the amic brief on Hernanz-Montiel's behalf.