‘Mistreated, tortured, harassed’: how Australia is failing LGBTI refugees
“You have decision-makers asking people: do you call gay chat lines, do you go to beats, do you know certain slang? And if you don’t, you mustn’t be gay.”
“You have decision-makers asking people: do you call gay chat lines, do you go to beats, do you know certain slang? And if you don’t, you mustn’t be gay.”
The billboard was crowdfunded by international LGBTI rights group All Out, in partnership with Human Rights Law Centre, with the aim of raising awareness on gay Iranian refugees Nima and Ashkan who are currently detained on Nauru.
President of the Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs, wants LGBTI Australians to do more for rainbow refugees.
Western Australia Liberal Senator Dean Smith has said he would ask Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to consider persecuted LGBTI people in Australia’s intake of refugees from the war zones of Syria and Iraq.