Gay asylum seekers need our help | Julie Bl | The Guardian

Contents:

• GAY UGANDAN ASYLUM SEEKERS ' DANGER IF SENT HOME'
• GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS: APPLITNS AND COUNTRY OF ORIG
• GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS NEED OUR HELP
• GAY ASYLUM SEEKER WEEPS AS JUDGE SENDS HIM TO PRISON OVER ‘SPERATE’ BID TO STAY THE UK
• GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS FACE ‘TSIVE’ SEXUAL QUTNS
• GAY AND TERSEX ASYLUM SEEKERS FD PLACE TO LL HOME BRA
• GAY ASYLUM SEEKER WHO ARRIVED UK ON A DGHY BOAT PLEADS WH ERNMENT TO SHOW ‘MERCY’

GAY UGANDAN ASYLUM SEEKERS ' DANGER IF SENT HOME'

Contents1 Asylum Claims for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) People2 Can Asylum Seekers Work? Asylum Claims for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) People.

There is still wispread discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex people around the world, as well as agast any other people who intify as queer or not cisgenr and heterosexual.

In July 2018, Danielle Cohen attend Pri and saw protts agast untri that punish homosexualy wh the ath penalty. On 19th June 2018, we had the honour of attendg the Hoe of Lords for the lnch of the Enomic Cost of Homophobia, an illumatg report published by the Peter Tatchell Foundatn. We reprent dividuals, both asylum applitns and appeals, who ask for asylum or make a Human Rights claim on the basis of homosexualy.

GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS: APPLITNS AND COUNTRY OF ORIG

Homosexualy do not need to be illegal your untry for you to make an asylum claim; the important pot is that you n show a real risk of ser harm om the ernment, or other sectns of the populatn, where the ernment nnot or will not protect you. Provg you are gay an terview is a challengg prospect, pecially if you do not have evince of your sexualy, perhaps bee you are not outgog. Read more about why gay asylum seekers are not believed terviews here.

The UK Lbian & Gay Immigratn Group (UKLGIG) nducted a study to Home Office cisns March 2015. Other exampl of qutns clud qutng how the applints me to realise they were gay, how they felt about members of the same sex their early teens, and the tails of dreams they had had volvg members of the oppose sex.

The Home Office have also attempted to ny that LGBT people are persecuted s where the asylum seeker’s untry of natnaly has crimalised homosexualy but there is nsistent applitn of this law.

GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS NEED OUR HELP

A recent se has seen Danielle protect the Article 3 right of a South Korean natnal who was rmed by the Home Office that there were no surmountable obstacl to livg as a homosexual uple Korea. The Home Office had failed to take to acunt expert ttimony about the treatment of gay migrants Korea and that South Korean law barred the Brish partner om movg to South Korea, as South Korean law do not regnise same-sex relatnships.

Image source, GodeyImage ptn, Godey, pictured here at a prott the UK, says he watched a iend shot ad for beg gaySame-sex liaisons are illegal Uganda. People nvicted of homosexual acts n be sent to jail for the rt of their liv. Some gay Ugandans survive by stayg unr the radar and live a shadowy half-life, prentg a straight face to the world.

Bee Godey is both gay and Ugandan, he says he was expelled om school, rejected by his fay and sacked om his job. Bee Yudaya is both gay and Ugandan, she says she nnot ntact her fay and is beg sought by police.

GAY ASYLUM SEEKER WEEPS AS JUDGE SENDS HIM TO PRISON OVER ‘SPERATE’ BID TO STAY THE UK

Bee Rodney is both gay and Ugandan, he says he was forced to live on the streets and ed to rry poison his pocket se he need to kill himself before gettg arrted, Godey and Yudaya are now the UK and have applied for asylum. Image source, RodneyImage ptn, Rodney uld not believe how different attus to homosexualy were London pared to KampalaRodney, who is now 23, was reported to his school bee he was seen cuddlg a boy.

GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS FACE ‘TSIVE’ SEXUAL QUTNS

You uld go to a club and all the gay people would be there. "Ai and homosexualy lawsLaws outlawg same-sex relatns exist 31 out of 54 Ain untri, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) sex n be punishable by ath northern Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia and Mrania.

People nvicted of homosexualy n be sent to jail for the rt of their liv. However, Angola, Mozambique and the Seychell have all scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent chapla at Rodney's llege put him touch wh the Cizen's Advice Bure, which told him about the asylum procs. "Image ptn, Godey says he saw his iend shot for beg gayIn 2002, after beg disvered a same-sex act, 18-year-old Godey went on the n wh a iend.

I am so sred, the police are lookg for me and I've already mted the gay sex, " he said. He was unpopular wh the thori, he says, not jt bee he was gay, but bee he'd spoken out agast the print, Yoweri Meveni.

GAY AND TERSEX ASYLUM SEEKERS FD PLACE TO LL HOME BRA

Godey said the screeng and terviews volved the procs ma him anx bee he felt his qutners did not believe he was gay. She was not openly gay back home but she did have a girliend, who is still fay recently found out she is a lbian. You are wh people spreadg homosexualy around.

GAY ASYLUM SEEKER WHO ARRIVED UK ON A DGHY BOAT PLEADS WH ERNMENT TO SHOW ‘MERCY’

'"Yudaya said the Home Office, although accepted she was gay, was not nvced she would be danger if she had to go back to Uganda. "Leila Zah, executive director of the UK Lbian and Gay Immigratn Group, said that refuge were often disbelieved by officials who then asked appropriate and meang qutns.

A former Catholic mister who believ the current penal law is "limed" and wants same-sex acts to be punishable by ath, he has scribed [heterosexual] child rape as "preferable to homosexualy" claims "homosexualy is not natural to Ugandans" and a "massive recment by gay people" took place schools, promotg a "falsehood that people are born like that".