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A trans woman founded a group to help trans people leave the U.S. due to rising hate
“There’s like 30 states right now I wouldn’t even drive through,” the group’s founder said.
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Pride in Pictures: Discovering “a whole new world”
After gaining asylum, this person is now a citizen and has a husband and an amazing future ahead of him. He is one of my pride and joys!
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Gay Russian with HIV seeking asylum detained under Trump immigration nightmare
He has no criminal record, and poses no danger to the public.
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Scores of gay Russians seek asylum in U.S. due to hostility back home
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.
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Prominent Ugandan gay activist to be granted asylum in U.S.
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…
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British Immigration office criticized over ‘degrading’ LGBT questionnaire
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.
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Club manager seeks freedom from hostile attitude towards LGBT Russians
The day that Arkady Gyngazov’s plane landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York, thugs and hooligans hired by the owner of the building in Moscow where the gay nightclub he helped managed is located, ripped an entire portion of the roof off the building, heating and air conditioning units, exposing the club to the harsh Russian winter.
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EU court: Homosexuality can be grounds for asylum
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.
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Canada says it will favor refugee claims by gay Russians
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.
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Norway refuses gay Iraqi asylum, says ‘go home, be discreet’
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’.
