German LGBT Groups Plan Shelters for Gay Refuge Amid Attacks

Contents:

• GERMAN LGBT GROUPS PLAN SHELTERS FOR GAY REFUGE AMID ATTACKS
• "CONSTANT FEAR" FOR GAY REFUGE EUROPE'S SHELTERS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS, AND INTERSEX (LGBTI) REFUGE

GERMAN LGBT GROUPS PLAN SHELTERS FOR GAY REFUGE AMID ATTACKS

Short Gui for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans+ and Inter+ (LGBTI) Refuge Germany. Lbian, gay, bisexual, trans+, or ter+ (LGBTI) persons who are beg persecuted are entled to asylum Germany. The fact that homosexual activy is punishable by law do not self nstute an act of persecutn.

Married homosexuals should expla, why they are married. Insults, abstract threats, and homophobic or transphobic attus held by the majory of society are not themselv grounds for asylum. *Trigger warng for homophobic slurs and scriptns of vlence.

LGBT+ refuge experience challeng durg their asylum procr like homophobia and transphobia om their assigned asylum officers or se translators which end up sendg them right back to danger. Thankfully, I was ntacted by Homosexuelle Selbsthilfe (HS), an LGBT+ rights anizatn that helps refuge like me Germany. We were able to prove ont of a judge that I was sabotaged by a homophobic translator and an officer who actively didn’t believe me and that my applitn was valid.

"CONSTANT FEAR" FOR GAY REFUGE EUROPE'S SHELTERS

So many LGBT+ refuge face homophobia and transphobia their asylum procs.

But is illegal to be gay or lbian Ethpia and eventually we were “ught” by our boss. But throughout my asylum procs, I enuntered homophobia and racism om the thori here.

Not only was I forced to re-live the trma I had been through, but my plea for help was met wh blatant homophobic disapproval om asylum officers and my assigned translator.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS, AND INTERSEX (LGBTI) REFUGE

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”But the Thomson Rters Foundatn spoke to several gay asylum seekers who felt unfortable discsg their sexualy ont of their WORD FOR GAYIn a Berl fé, Mahmoud Hasso, a journalist and activist om Syria, scribed his experience: “When I told (my terpreter) that I wanted to clu homosexualy my grounds for claimg asylum, he dropped his pen and walked out of the terview. ”Abdullah al-Baidi, another activist om Oman now livg Saarbrücken, near the French borr, disvered his terpreter did not know the word for “gay” refuge are ma to feel unfortable durg their terview, they might whhold ccial rmatn about their se – riskg rejectn and possible portatn, said Knud Wechterste, founr of the chary Rabow Refuge. “Wh trag, a person n bee aware of their own stereotyp or even homophobia, ” she told the Thomson Rters Foundatn.