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?
* gay refugee meaning *
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.
THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A GAY REFUGEE GERMANY
Is there anythg about beg gay the Middle East that would surprise people? I have been out sce 2003, although I never adopted the mastream Wtern ia of a 'gay liftyle'. Livg as an openly gay person a untry where homosexualy is crimalised was hard.