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Contents:
- GAY REFUGE SEEK ASYLUM U.S.
- JUDGE ORRS U.S. TO RETURN GAY ASYLUM-SEEKER PORTED TO CHAD
- AS A GAY ASYLUM SEEKER, I WAS LUCKY
- TMP YEARS WERE TERRIFYG FOR GAY ASYLUM-SEEKER
- GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS FACE THREAT OM FELLOW REFUGE EUROPE
- EUROPE IS TELLG GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS THEY ARE NOT GAY ENOUGHEUROPE IS TELLG GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS THEY ARE NOT GAY ENOUGH
- HOW EUROPE TERM WHETHER ASYLUM-SEEKERS ARE GAY
GAY REFUGE SEEK ASYLUM U.S.
The Uned Stat offers asylum to gays and lbians om other untri, and more are seekg . In this week's Behd Closed Doors, Ivelda Dos Santos shar why he sought asylum the U.S. Also, Victoria Nielson wh Immigratn Equaly, a group that works to help gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people seekg asylum, talks about the work of her group. * gay asylum story *
Fernando, 37, who asked that his full name not be ed, was a driver at a sugar factory Guatemala, where he’d endured a lifetime of anti-gay slurs, discrimatn at work, and random beatgs.
JUDGE ORRS U.S. TO RETURN GAY ASYLUM-SEEKER PORTED TO CHAD
"It’s illegal to be gay over 70 untri the world; the untri LGBTQ people lerally fear for their liv." * gay asylum story *
Also, Victoria Nielson wh Immigratn Equaly, a group that works to help gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people seekg asylum, talks about the work of her group. DOS SANTOS: Police, if you are leavg a gay bar, for stance, you're safe once you're si sometim, but when you're leavg, that's a problem.
I mean, we fd that wh our gay male s, that many untri, the police themselv sgle out gay people gay bars and will raid them, will arrt people and ta them whout charg, often force them to have oral sex wh them or place them holdg cells wh sort of mon crimals and let the mon crimals know that the are, you know, a bunch of faggots or somethg along those l. Even as heated as the gay rights bate n be the Uned Stat, I thk 's difficult for the Uned Stat to envisn the level of hatred that people feel toward homosexualy other parts of the world.
AS A GAY ASYLUM SEEKER, I WAS LUCKY
* gay asylum story *
Frankly, the rds are still stacked agast gay people, bee the most mon way for dividuals to get immigratn stat the Uned Stat is through fay-based immigratn, through havg a hband or wife sponsor an dividual for a green rd. We equently receive e-mails that are heartrendg om people, you know, Iran or Qatar sayg, you know, I'm gay and I fear for my life. We're also joed by Victoria Neilson, legal director at Immigratn Equaly, a group New York that helps gay, lbian and bisexual and transgenr people get asylum the Uned Stat.
TMP YEARS WERE TERRIFYG FOR GAY ASYLUM-SEEKER
For a gay asylum-seeker om Azerbaijan, the Tmp years were a roller aster of fear he'd be sent home or that his fay would be harmed. * gay asylum story *
This is the story of Victor, a Nigerian man who fled home bee beg gay is a crime and who wants his story to be one of hope [story llected by Elisa Menenz for Metro].
GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS FACE THREAT OM FELLOW REFUGE EUROPE
Has been livg the UK for 10 years, after movg om Kenya where gay sex rri a prison sentence of up to 14 years, and recently taed. For the World Refugee Day '19, we would like to pay tribute to those volunteers who help all migrants, cludg people fleeg homophobia and transphobia, so they n feel everywhere at 'home'. Aniyi Raji’s story nfirms the difficulti experienced by gay asylum seekers havg their asylum requt regnised [story llected by The Guardian].
As part of [Gay Star News] Bi+ Manifto season, sperate asylum seekers have shared the vastatg realy the ways they are discrimated agast once they reach ‘safer shor’. In a report published 2016 by Stonewall and the UK Lbian and Gay Immigratn Group (UKLGIG), several LGBT asylum seekers talk about their experienc wh UK tentn centr. Skhumbuzo Khumalo fled Zimbabwe, where homosexualy is illegal, after fearg for her life - only to be subjected to ‘gradg’ treatment on arrival the UK (by Harriet Hernando - 2016).
Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) urban refuge Mexi, Uganda and South Ai tell their stori their own powerful and thentic voic. In January 2016, a gay asylum seeker the UK said he was facg portatn to Malawi bee he didn’t have enough ‘proof’ of his sexualy.
EUROPE IS TELLG GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS THEY ARE NOT GAY ENOUGHEUROPE IS TELLG GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS THEY ARE NOT GAY ENOUGH
Another report by the Swedish advocy group RFSL—the Swedish Feratn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex rights—shows that mistaken prenceptns and expectatns about LGBTQ+ people on the part of migratn thori have a signifint impact on their procsg of asylum applitns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and exprsn. “For example, a mor who clearly scribed herself as a trans woman was tried and asssed as a ‘homosexual man’ spe submtg extensive evince of genr-affirmg treatment.
HOW EUROPE TERM WHETHER ASYLUM-SEEKERS ARE GAY
“To habate and have a sexual relatnship wh someone of the same sex do not make one homosexual, acrdg to the migratn thori, whout verbal acunt for a ep, emotnal procs of self-awarens about the sexual orientatn, ” the report ntu. Seidu, who intified as bisexual, had left Ghana, where any form of homosexualy is punishable by at least three years prison, and spent nearly a year travelg through South and Central Ameri orr to apply for asylum the U.
A feral judge has orred the Department of Homeland Secury to return a gay asylum-seeker who was ported to Chad, lg that the ernment had not properly nsired his asylum claim based on his stat as a gay man before portg Yai arrived the U. ”“Obvly, imprisonment or ath would foreclose Yai’s abily to pursue his motn to reopen, ” Breyer wrote his orr, referrg to the possible punishment Yai uld face as a gay man Chad.