Many countries are hostile to homosexuality. Countless gay people live under governments and religions that demonize and criminalize same-sex behavior. It comes as no surprise that many les-bi-gay people attempt, fail or succeed to live in other countries hoping to escape danger and persecution. Immigration to a safe country can be a matter of life or death.
On this page are referrals to immigration resources and personnel.
• National Asylum Partnership on Sexual Minorities
• Gay and Lesbian Arabs
• African Asylum Seekers
• Latin American Human Rights
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
• National Center for Lesbian Rights
• Health for Asylum Seekers (UK)
• UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group
• Asylum Law.org
• LGBT Asylum News
• LGBT Immigration Help in USA
• LGBT Immigration Help in Canada
• Immigration in Canada (news story)
• Immigration Equality
• Asylum On-Library (see article #8)
• 2006 Immigration Film 'Maple Palm'
A report released on May 2, 2006 by Human Rights Watch and Immigration Equality entitled:
Family Unvalued: Discrimination, Denial, and the Fate of Binational Same-Sex Couples under U.S. Law.
Nearly 200 pages, it is available online at Immigration Equality and Human Rights Watch,
and documents a broad range of cases, including gay couples.
• Independent Gay Forum--Commentary
• Human Rights Watch
• Columbia University Law school: Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic
• Immigration and Equality--commentary
• List of Immigration Lawyers from 'Find Stuff'
• Astrea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
• Also see: Gay Canada News reports #4, 4a, and 5 about Canadian asylum
• News report from Pink News (Sept 17/07): Iraqi Gays Win Asylum in UK
• News report from Windy City Times (Dec 19/07): Global Gays Initiative
• News Report from Canada.com (March 15/08): Proving Gayness Not Always Easy
• News Report from Canada.com (June 27/08): Politics and Showbiz Support Gay Asylum Seekers
• News Report from Chicago Tribune 2010: Growing Number of LGBT Win asylum in USA
• Gay Asylum UK Gay asylum is a voluntary organisation that receives no public funding and has its own independent views. "Our aim is to assist and help gay asylum seekers in the UK, despite their country of origin or current legal status. However our special interest and expertise is in the persecution, torture and execution of homosexuals in and by the Islamic republic of Iran"
E-mail contact
• Report on prejudice against LGBT refugees:
http://pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-7403.html
• Using the Internet to 'prove' a person is gay:
Facebook may help prove gay refugee's claims says Canadian group
• Gay Latinos continue to seek political asylum in the United States
http://missionlocal.org/2009/05/gay-immigrants-seek-asylum
• Beware of Immigration and Asylum Fraud: Read This
• Increase in Gay Asylum in USA
• Interview: Neil Grungras, founder of ORAM
• Immigration Stories This site gives the LGBT community a chance to share their stories related to immigration and putting them together to create a collective wisdom
