vendredi 17 août 2018

Not Gay Enough?

I hadn't seen a thread on this yet, and thought it might merit some discussion.
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Austria rejects Afghan's asylum bid because he 'did not act or dress gay'
An Afghan teenager who said he feared being persecuted in his home country for being gay has had his asylum application rejected by Austria after an official said he did not “walk, act or dress” like a gay man, according to reports.

An official in Lower Austria found no grounds for fear of persecution based on the sexual orientation of the 18-year-old, the Falter newspaper reported.

“The way you walk, act or dress does not show even in the slightest that you could be homosexual,” the official reportedly wrote in his assessment rejecting the claim.

And in other news;
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Deported gay Afghans told to ‘pretend to be straight’

New Home Office rules would send gay asylum seekers back to Afghanistan, where homosexuality is illegal

Gay Afghans can be deported to their home country, where homosexuality is illegal and “wholly taboo” and they must pretend to be straight, under new British government guidelines for handling asylum applications.

“The Home Office’s approach seems to be to tell asylum seekers, ‘Pretend you’re straight, move to Kabul and best of luck,’” said Heather Barr, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Living a life where you are forced to lie every day about a key part of your identity, and live in constant fear of being found out and harassed, prosecuted or attacked, is exactly the kind of persecution asylum laws are supposed to prevent.”

Because as long as you don't do or say anything "gay", you're safe from persecution.

So if you don't 'act gay' then you don't need refugee relief, and if you do then you can just stop doing it.


via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/2BhsbX0

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