Tag: refugee

Here’s an inspiring story to start off the week with some positivity. This weekend, the first ever LGBTQ+ pride in a refugee camp took place. Rainbow flags flew and demonstrators marched through Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp. The organizers of the event were from Refugee Flag Kakuma, and most of the participants were LGBTQ+ refugees who fled from neighboring Uganda. Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda. The Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act was passed in Dec. 2013, inciting a punishment of life in prison for...

Bassil marched alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Toronto Pride In a new digital short for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), director Nimisha Mukerji provided a space for queer Syrian refugee Bassil to tell his incredible story of survival. Awake & Dreaming opens on Bassil asking the audience to let him tell them “about a place where Muslims and Christians lived together as neighbors, where women could get an education…where you could feel safe inside your home.” “Now imagine that place...

After they recover from their injuries, they are likely to be sent back to the same refugee camp where they were attacked A Serbian gay couple seeking asylum in Germany have barely survived a vicious attack at the refugee camp where they were living. The incident was revealed in a Facebook post by Javid Nabiyev on the Queer Refugees Pride page. The men were beaten last week and ‘were almost dead’ when they arrived to hospital. Nabiyev and the Queer Refugees Pride...

Disowned by his family and driven from his country by extremists, activist Rakib tells GSN: 'I don’t have anyone in this world but my shadow' Mahamood Rakibul Hasan (or simply ‘Rakib’) hasn’t eaten a decent meal in days. It’s a scorching hot morning in Kathmandu, Nepal, and we’re sitting in the pretty courtyard of my hotel, where I offer to buy him lunch. Over a triple decker sandwich and iced coffee, the handsome 23-year-old tells me his story – beginning with right...