Asylum

“Any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to find a pattern or practice of persecution against Transgender women in Honduras.”

“In effect, the government keeps crashing the same car into a gate, hoping that someday it might break through,” the judge wrote.

45 has already checked out of the job, but with last-minute regulation changes to a raft of anti-LGBTQ appointees, the Trump administration will continue to cast a long shadow over Biden’s goals.

As former VA attorney general, he called gays “soulless” and tried to criminalize consensual sex. In this new position, he could do even more damage to LGBTQ immigrants and families.

Our neighbors to the north are filling the vacuum created by Trump’s abdication of American leadership.

“People wouldn’t let us into trucks, they made us get in the back of the line for showers, they would call us ugly names.”

He apparently doesn’t “walk, act and dress” like a gay man.

When you look at all the attacks, the pattern of Trump’s willful destruction of our rights is crystal clear.

NEW YORK — Had he stayed in Russia, Andrew Mironov would be settling in to a stable job with an oil company, likely with a newly awarded doctoral degree in electrical engineering. Instead, he faces an uncertain future in New York City as one of scores of Russian gays seeking asylum in the United States because of hostility and harassment in their homeland.

BOSTON — John “Longjones” Abdallah Wambere, a prominent Ugandan gay activist for over 17 years, has been recommended for asylum in the United States, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) announced Tuesday. In a letter dated September 11, 2014, the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services informed Wambere that his application was…

BOSTON — Fearing prison or even death, an openly gay activist from Uganda is seeking asylum in the United States since his home country toughened criminal punishment against gays.

BOSTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in Boston have released 19-year-old gay Ethiopian man who was facing deportation back to his home country where knowledge that he is gay could land him in prison.

BOSTON, Mass. — Federal immigration officials in Boston are seeking to deport a 19-year-old gay Ethiopian man, where he is likely to be persecuted and imprisoned.

LONDON — A confidential internal report by the British government, leaked to the British press last week, details a series of graphic questions posed to LGBT people seeking political asylum in the United Kingdom, including inquiries into a person’s sexual activity.

LOS ANGELES — The United States illegally deported a gay asylum-seeker to months of torture and death in a Honduran prison, his mother claims in court.

BRUSSELS — Refugees facing imprisonment in their home country because they are gay may have grounds to be granted asylum in the European Union, the 28-nation bloc’s top court ruled Thursday.

SURREY, British Columbia — Canada’s Immigration Minister Chris Alexander said Monday that the country’s refugee board will favorably review asylum claims by LGBT people fleeing persecution in Russia.

A gay Iraqi has been refused Norwegian asylum and told to “go home and be discreet.” The High Court accepted that Azad Hassan Rasol was gay and that gay men in Iraq are at risk, including at risk of being killed, but it ruled that Rasol ‘must comply with Iraq’s socio-cultural norms’.