Refugees

LGBTQ people in Ukraine are especially at risk during the invasion.

“They will definitely kill me. Being gay is not a good thing in Afghanistan…. Everything has totally changed. Nobody is happy here.”

Trump instituted a policy to block refugees during the pandemic. The Biden administration is considering revisions to the policy, but not the part that singles out LGBTQ people.

Little America’s episode ‘The Son’ is focused on a gay Syrian immigrant. Now it’s being banned in 11 countries, and one of its actors can’t enter the United States.

From suggesting Buttigieg was in league with the devil to arguing that Jesus was a nationalist, religious conservatives fell all over themselves to rip the candidate’s Christmas wish apart.

And two non-binary people were also named Rhodes Scholars this year.

Like the many of Jews who perished in the Holocaust because the U.S. government wouldn’t grant them asylum, so will many Muslims

Gov. Kate Brown — the first out U.S. governor — is helping build a legal wall to shield Oregon from President Trump’s actions on immigration and other civil rights issues.

Trump’s first week has paved the way for a “governing” style concerned more with bravado and bluster than measured actions emphasizing shared power with potential negotiating partners.

“In prison I’ll be beaten and raped every day until I am released and leave the country again,” said Andrew Nagbe.

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.

TORONTO — An Arab-Israeli lesbian couple, who fled to Canada from Israel in fear of death at the hands of their Muslim family have been told they can remain in Canada for another chance at receiving asylum.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday announced the creation of a first-ever resource center to support the resettlement of LGBT refugees.