We asked Mahmoud Hasso, a Syrian journalist and gay blogger who works at a refugee shelter Berl, what 's like to be a gay refugee.
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WHAT'S LIKE TO BE A GAY REFUGEE?
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GENEVA (22 March 2022) - As the Rsian Feratn’s aggrsn agast Ukrae tensifi, is sential for Stat and all stakeholrs engaged protectg forcibly displaced persons to regnise and rpond to the uniquely genred exposure to risk and protectn needs of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, tersex (LGBTI) and genr-diverse refuge, asylum seekers, ternally displaced and undocumented people, a UN expert said today. * lgbt refugees issues *
Mahmoud Hasso, a Syrian journalist and gay blogger who works at a refugee shelter Berl, answers the qutn. I started bloggg 2006, an effort to help Iraqi lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) refuge. That's when I set up my Arabic onle gay magaze, Mawaleh.
In 2015, the German gay rights anisatn Schwulenberatung Berl started a Queer Refuge Project, and I got a job their day centre.