With Sydney’s current COVID-19 Delta strain lockdown, LGBTQI migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers struggle to access their communities, as organisations lack funding.
In an already overlooked sector, members often struggle with displacement in their ethnic communities and find LGBTQI support groups safe.Many migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are out of work, and COVID disaster payments are inaccessible to those who work in hospitality or casual jobs.
Star Observer spoke with STARTTS, Advance Diversity Services, Forcibly Displaced People Network (FDPN) and ACON to see how LGBTQI migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker organisations support their members in an uncertain time.Bijan, a 37-year-old originally from Iran, found an accepting.