Queer Refugees In Australia Struggle With Visibility And Support
Refugees and asylum seekers are an overlooked sector within the LGBTQI+ community in Australia. *Azhan works for Elevate as a peer support worker and was …
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LGBTI Australians back campaign to stop Qantas deporting 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 …
Anonymous donors pay tax bill for gay asylum seeker unable to work in UK
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.
Melbourne’s LGBTI community to call for safety of men imprisoned on Manus
Roughly 600 men remain imprisoned on Manus, including men who fled persecution from their home countries for being gay.
Mobile billboard protesting Australia’s treatment of gay refugees to tour Parliament House
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.
LGBTI people can do more for asylum seekers and refugees: Gillian Triggs
President of the Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs, wants LGBTI Australians to do more for rainbow refugees.
Human Rights Commissioner’s comments on asylum seekers at VAC Hypothetical spark reaction
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.
Play shines a light on the plights of LGBTI asylum seekers
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.
Gay Liberal Senator Dean Smith: “Find place amongst those 12,000 refugees for LGBT people”
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.