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UK government told to give LGBTQ+ Ugandans safe asylum route as Anti-Homosexuality Bill looms

May 05
4 min read

Politics

Suella Braverman

Suella Braverman says Rwanda is one of the world’s ‘safest’ countries. LGBTQ+ refugee groups disagree

Mar 21
4 min read

UK

UK government denied lesbian refugee ‘because she’d been married to a man’

Mar 14
4 min read

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UK

LGBTQ+ asylum seekers reveal ‘traumatising’ treatment by Tory government: ‘I’m living in fear’

Feb 20
6 min read

Trans asylum seeker accused Home Office of transphobia

UK

Trans asylum seeker abused in male hostel accuses Home Office of transphobia: ‘They don’t give a f**k’

Nov 08 2022
7 min read

A boat of asylum seekers try to gain entry to the Uk via the English Channel

UK

Home Office has sent 3,000 queer refugees back to violent anti-LGBTQ+ countries, new data reveals

Aug 25 2022
5 min read

A protester holds a placard describing the Rwanda deportations as dangerous for LGBTQ people during a demonstration.

Africa

Rwanda’s government ‘using LGBTQ+ activists for propaganda’ as part of secret, sinister plot

Jul 18 2022
3 min read

Protestors gather in Durham to demonstrate against the Derwentside Immigration and Removal Centre

UK

Gay man deported from UK to Nigeria despite fears he’ll face ‘near-certain death’

Jun 30 2022
5 min read

World

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5 essential things you need to know this week: Eurovision, LGBTQ+ refugees and Buffalo shooting

May 16 2022
4 min read

UK

Protesters hold a banner during the demonstration against the Home Office

‘Cruel’ Home Office denied asylum to 25 LGBT+ men who fled Afghanistan for their lives

May 04 2022
4 min read

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UK

Home Office refusing to give life-saving HIV medication to detainee, lawsuit says

Nov 09 2021
3 min read

Priti Patel

UK

Refugee repeatedly denied asylum because UK’s Home Office ‘didn’t believe he was gay’

Aug 24 2021
2 min read

Gay man fleeing conversion therapy in Gabon must live on £6 a day in UK

UK

Gay man who escaped conversion therapy in Gabon surviving on £6 a day while Home Office considers his asylum application

Jun 12 2021
2 min read

A crowd of mostly Black and brown LGBT+ protesters holding placards with messages like "refugee pride" and "be proud to support LGBTQ refugees"

UK

Queer asylum seekers left facing isolation, hunger and mockery – right here in the UK

May 01 2021
4 min read

LGBT+ people in Iran face the death penalty or lashings for same-sex intercourse.

World

Iran’s use of electric shocks on LGBT+ children is torture and ‘echoes treatment by the Nazis’

Feb 12 2021
1 min read

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News

Galop launches crucial new initiative for tackling hate crime as bigots blame pandemic on LGBT+ people

Feb 01 2021
1 min read

Gay sex is criminalised in Pakistan under a combination of Sharia law principles and colonial law imposed by British rulers.

News

Asylum seeker who sold a kidney to flee homophobic Pakistan wins crucial legal battle in bid to remain in UK

Jan 29 2021
2 min read

Four in five trans people victim of a hate crime in the UK last year

Exclusive

Half of trans people too scared to use public bathrooms as transphobic violence in Britain spirals to dangerous new heights

Nov 13 2020
4 min read

LGBT+ rights campaigners complain of a "culture of disbelief” in the Home Office's treatment of LGBT+ asylum seekers.

UK

LGBT+ people seeking asylum in the UK face mockery and derision from interpreters, damning report warns

Nov 11 2020
2 min read

Police officers fired after slew of homophobic, racist and sexist comments

UK

Hate crimes soar to terrifying new high with police investigating hundreds of transphobic offences every month

Oct 14 2020
1 min read

Home office LGBT+ asylum seekers

UK

Lesbian who was gang-raped after being unlawfully deported wins stunning court victory against Home Office

Sep 28 2020
2 min read

Home office LGBT+ asylum seekers

UK

LGBT+ asylum seekers face ‘risk of returning to torture’ if Home Office moves ahead with ‘dangerous’ outsourcing plan

Sep 24 2020
2 min read

Lesbian sisters escape deportation after asylum judge rejected them

UK

Lesbian sisters fear death in Pakistan after new asylum application is rejected

Mar 10 2020
2 min read

Lesbian sisters escape deportation after asylum judge rejected them

UK

Lesbian sisters temporarily saved from deportation after asylum judge said their sexuality wasn’t ‘credible’

Feb 27 2020
3 min read

Gay man, 68, refused asylum because he 'didn't have a boyfriend'

UK

Gay man refused asylum because he ‘didn’t have a boyfriend’ wants to give others like him hope

Jan 30 2020
1 min read

Gay man, 68, refused asylum because he 'didn't have a boyfriend'

UK

Queer Malaysian once told he’s ‘not gay enough to stay in Britain’ wins right to remain

Dec 18 2019
2 min read

London bus attack Two women on a London bus covered in blood after alleged homophobic attack

Crime

These London boroughs are the worst for homophobic and transphobic hate crimes

Dec 09 2019
1 min read

Christie Elan-Cane: 'X' passport fight reaches Supreme Court

UK

Activist takes UK Home Office to court over gender X passports

Dec 03 2019
2 min read