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Contents:
- A REFUGEE FROM CHECHNYA SHAR HOW HE ESPED TORTURE AND MURR THE ANTI-GAY RSIAN REPUBLIC
- GAY REFUGEE OM CENTRAL AMERI FDS SAFETY CANADA
- REMEMBERG THE POSIVELY GAY CUBAN REFUGEE TASK FORCE
A REFUGEE FROM CHECHNYA SHAR HOW HE ESPED TORTURE AND MURR THE ANTI-GAY RSIAN REPUBLIC
"It’s illegal to be gay over 70 untri the world; the untri LGBTQ people lerally fear for their liv." * gay refugee story *
Both Motafa and Salem are gay, and they left Latakia bee they were outed.
“You n’t tell people that you’re gay and live a normal life. He wants to be an LGBTI activist and help other gay refuge.
AD, a gay man born and raised the semi-tonomo Rsian Republic of Chechnya, worked as a hairdrser the highly nservative Mlim-majory regn. The police drove AD to an abandoned warehoe where other spected dg alers, vlent crimals and gay and bisexual men were beg held whout food or beds.
GAY REFUGEE OM CENTRAL AMERI FDS SAFETY CANADA
Mar, a gay refugee om Honduras, fds safety Canada after fleeg om vlence his home untry and Mexi. * gay refugee story *
“For Chechens, beg gay is the worst thg, ” says the Chechen refugee. They beat bee we are gay.
REMEMBERG THE POSIVELY GAY CUBAN REFUGEE TASK FORCE
RELATED | This Chechen Gay Refugee Was Forced to Apologize for ‘Disgracg Chechnya’ by Talkg About the Gay Purge. It’s illegal to be gay over 70 untri; the regns LGBTQ people lerally fear for their liv. In some plac, homosexualy is punishable by ath penalty, and abe of members the LGTBQ muny is a mon occurrence.
Queer muni have mobilised material and polil support ci like Berl and Cologne to addrs the diverse needs of queer refuge the asylum system, and to challenge homophobia, transphobia and anti-refugee sentiments more generally. Cas of homophobic discrimatn at var refugee mps were often reported. In 2017, CDU polician Jens Spahn argued that homophobic abe refugee acmodatn centr monstrated that the moral valu of refuge differ signifintly to those of Germans.
Whilst no evince exists to suggt homophobia acmodatn centr is more or ls prevalent than German society at large, such arguments stmentalise queer victimhood to further dog-whistle, anti-refugee sentiments. One of my terlocutors reported feelg that “nobody talks about ”, a sentiment shared by Ibrahim Willeke, a gay refugee om Lebanon, and founr of the anisatn SOFRA Cologne.