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May 22, 2013
Senators blasted by LGBT groups for leaving gays out of immigration reform bill

They say system 'dehumanizes, scapegoats and vilifies all immigrants, including LGBT immigrants'

LGBT groups are livid that gay couples will not be included in a new bill that would offer US citizenship to immigrants living in the country before 31 December 2011.

Senator Patrick Leahy (pictured) had tried to have same-sex couples included in the legislation but could not garner support from even his fellow Democrats who said they did not want the inclusion to jeopardize overall immigration reform.

February 7, 2013
Marco Rubio: LGBT immigrants' rights not 'a central issue'

The US Senator from Florida said that immigration reform will be 'difficult enough as is' without considering protections for same-sex binational couples

US Senator Marco Rubio hopes LGBT family rights won't become 'a central issue' in the nation's immigration reform plan.

The Republican senator from Florida said in an interview with Buzzfeed Brews: 'The immigration issue has so many landmines and pitfalls that it's going to be hard enough to do, as is.'

Rubio, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, also said: 'I think if that issue becomes a central issue in the debate, it's just going to make it harder to get it done because there's going to be a lot of strong feelings about it on both sides.'

July 20, 2012
Colombian transexual denied asylum in Spain

The Spanish National Court claims the asylum petition is only meant to avoid deportation 

A Colombian transexual has been denied asylum in Spain.

According to El Diaro De Cádiz, the National Court ruled that the individual only wanted to avoid deportation from Spain.

The claimant, who has been in Spain since May 2000, submitted the petition 24 March 2011, five days after courts ruled the individual be kept in the Center for Foreigners in Algericas for subsequent deportation.

The news website did not clarify the gender identity of the individual, referring to the person as 'a transexual'

May 30, 2012
Unsafe haven: Gay refugees in South Africa

With South Africa facing a flood of gay and trans refugees, a creaking asylum system is exposing them to corruption, homophobia and the risk of attack

A little over a week ago, Rachel, a 28 year-old asylum seeker from Uganda had her room in a home in a township by Cape Town, broken into and vandalized.

The burglary on 21 May, saw her lose almost all her belongings.

The police filed a report and sent Rachel (whose real name we are withholding for safety reasons) her crime number by text, but so far she’s heard nothing further from them.

‘People have been pointing a finger at my neighbor, who works night shifts and stays in the home all day long’, she tells me.

March 23, 2012
Gay California couple fights to stay together against deportation

A gay couple in San Francisco is challenging the federal marriage law that disregards same-sex unions in a bid to stay together in the U.S.

San Francisco’s federal immigration court put a deportation case on hold today (23 March) for a gay undocumented immigrant married to a U.S. citizen, according to the couple's attorney.

Alfonso Garcia, a 35-year-old Mexican native who moved to the United States with his parents in his mid-teens, and his 37-year-old husband Brian Willingham are petitioning the federal immigration service for legal residency based on their marriage, the CNN cited attorney Lavi Soloway as saying.

February 15, 2012
South Korea grants asylum to gay Nigerian

Seoul administrative court grants refugee status to gay man from Nigeria

A Nigerian man who claimed he could not return home for being gay was granted asylum by a South Korean court this week.

The man, whose name has been withheld, entered the country in 2009 because he was facing persecution in Nigeria for being gay. On Monday (13 February), a Seoul administrative court ruled in favor of a lawsuit filed by the Nigerian, which sought to overturn an earlier government decision not to recognize his refugee status.