Posts tagged gay refugees

Prominent LGBTQI Australians have signed on to support the Stop Deportations to Danger campaign, after Qantas shareholders voted for the airline to continue transporting asylum …

Kenneth Macharia, an asylum seeker from Kenya, was denied council tax support on his Glastonbury flat despite being unable to work while his asylum application is being processed.

Roughly 600 men remain imprisoned on Manus, including men who fled persecution from their home countries for being 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.

Other topics discussed at the Victorian AIDS Council’s second Hypothetical — held as part of Midsumma — included social issues regarding HIV and the trans community.

Based on a number of interviews with gay Iraqi refugees, a new play exploring the issues faced by gay asylum seekers will have its Australian premiere in Melbourne as part of the Midsumma Festival.

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.