This Is What It's Like to Be a Gay Refugee Germany

Contents:

• GAY PAL: THE QUEER ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO LL BERL HOME
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS, AND INTERSEX (LGBTI) REFUGE
• THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A GAY REFUGEE GERMANY

GAY PAL: THE QUEER ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO LL BERL HOME

Thanks to s reputatn as a hub of queer culture, not to mentn s untls gay bars and legendary clubs, Berl is buzzg wh queers om all over the world – cludg Syrians workg all kds of jobs. Haidar has ma a name for himself the drag and queer night scene, while Hasso has unselled hundreds of queer refuge at the gay service hub Schwulenberatung. He’s currently a unsellor for LGBTIQ refuge at gay service hub Schwulenberatung Berl.

But still, when I worked on Mr Gay Syria, a documentary about the gay pageant I was anisg, everybody who was volved had to make sure to disguise their inti. When I worked on Mr Gay Syria, a documentary about the gay pageant I was anisg, everybody who was volved had to make sure to disguise their inti.

In those procs you have to tell them that you are queer or homosexual, and then the social worker fil a paper to get you to the queer Heim. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex (LGBTI) Refuge. Informatn about our special offers for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex (LGBTI) refuge are available accept you as you are.

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

‍Are you Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Trans, or Intersex (LGBTI)? Are you Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Trans or Intersex (LGBTI)? Are you aaid of homophobic or transphobic discrimatn?

The plight of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr refuge is even more plex and, at tim, dangero. Wh many of them g om Syria and Afghanistan, where homosexualy is illegal and punishable by ath, rpectively, they are often targets of homophobic attacks by other rints their shelter who also hail om the non-acceptg untri. Others have pletely different experienc, like many of the olr, 30-pl gay men who e om Syria who were able to live relatively open gay liv Damasc before the civil war, ” Jäkel add.

Hasso, who is openly gay, now works at the center and helps newly arrived refuge through the asylum procre. The anizatn has psychotherapists on ll wh whom refuge n speak about the homophobia they have alt wh prevly or the difficulti they are havg adjtg to life Berl.

THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A GAY REFUGEE GERMANY

Many LGBTQ refuge have been spat on and faced both physil and verbal homophobic vlence, ” Jäkel explaed. ”Enena, a lbian refugee om Syria, participat a gatherg to promote the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on May 17, 2016 Berl, Gallup / Getty ImagHe also said staff at the center are well-traed how to approach and bt serve the rints, who may be emotnally vulnerable plac. There have been stanc of terpreters refg to work wh LGBTQ people and dozens of reports about anti-gay secury staff vlently attackg LGBTQ people and vlatg them sexually.

In the last five months of 2015, there were 95 reported s of abe agast LGBTQ refuge the untry, acrdg to Germany's Lbian and Gay Feratn (LSVD). In December 2015, five gay men had to be removed om their refugee shelters Amsterdam after receivg homophobic attacks om other, who is gay and a refugee om Syria and who did want to be further intified, pos for a photo followg a prs nference at the Berl headquarters of the LSVD, the German Lbian and Gay Associatn, on January 14, 2016 Berl, Gallup / Getty ImagFrom the Rsian regn of Chechnya, where gay men have allegedly been round up and tortured, to the untry of Yemen, where homosexualy is punishable by ath, LGBTQ people om anti-gay untri are seekg refuge rerd numbers, even if the procs remas distrsg. K., for example, the number of LGBTQ people seekg asylum due to anti-gay persecutn creased by more than 500 percent between 2009 and 2014, reachg 1, 115.

8, will likely have a negative impact on LGBTQ asylum seekers: Six of the eight untri clud the ban have laws on the books crimalizg homosexualy.