Tag: Sweden
This gay teen lost his asylum appeal & will be sent back to Iran...
A gay teen from Iran was told he has three weeks to leave Sweden after his asylum claim was rejected. Mehdi Shokr Khoda, 19, is Christian and said that he fears for his life if he is forced to go back to Iran.
“I cannot live open as a gay in Iran,” Khoda told Gay Star News. “They won’t understand something about you. They will just kill you first.”
Last year, the Migration Board in Sweden rejected Khoda’s asylum claim, saying that...
A Swedish orchestra has turned homophobic hate mail into an opera
It's called 'The F*G Train'
A classical orchestra in Sweden has responded in the best way to homophobic hate mail it received.
The Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra received a hate filled letter from an anonymous sender last month after it performed music by LGBTI composers.
It said the decision made the author of the letter ‘want to vomit’. The author also accused the orchestra of ‘hopping on the fag train’.
Rather than throw the letter away, composer Fredrik Österling has used it construct lyrics...
Gay teen at risk of deportation because Sweden doesn’t believe he’s gay
He fled Nigeria after his boyfriend was beaten to death
A gay teenager is facing deportation from Sweden back to Nigeria.
Franco Kaodimuo fled to Sweden in 2015, after his boyfriend died from lynch justice.
At 14, Kaodimuo was promised a football career in India, but it turned out he had been sold as a slave, The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Rights said.
‘Several’ of the young man’s friends, who also came to India from Nigeria, died because...
