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Needs of LGBT immigrants ‘quite unique,’ says MOSAIC report

Vancouver settlement agency helps LGBT newcomers, despite lost funding

By Ahmed Danny Ramadan

Power

Vancouver’s Foundation of Hope gets charitable status

Chair hopes to raise millions for NGOs that assist LGBT newcomers to Canada

By Shauna Lewis

Power

Warning: Gay men can be deported from Egypt, court rules

‘I keep a bag packed,’ says human rights activist in Cairo

By Ahmed Danny Ramadan

Power

Torontonians raise funds for Augustas Dennie

Former refugee claimant needs $6,000 to complete home in St Vincent

By HG Watson

Power

Foundation of Hope wants to help LGBT refugees

New Vancouver group launches Strut walk-a-thon

By Layla Cameron

Power

Rainbow refugees make Nova Scotia home

RRANS helped relocate Navid, a native Iranian, to the east coast

By Rebecca Rose

Opinion

How a gay couple and their dog escaped Beirut for Vancouver

As one Syrian refugee couple makes it to Canada, others wait around the world

By Ahmed Danny Ramadan

Power

Gay man deported to Antigua

Toronto man says his partner was sent back to island with homophobic laws

By Julie Cruikshank

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Ugandan speakers one step closer to WorldPride conference

Government doing ‘everything it can’ but rising plane-ticket prices may be problem

By Justin Ling

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Government seeks to extend LGBT refugee pilot project

Only a third of pledged money has been used for sponsored claimants

By Dylan C Robertson

Immigration & Refugees

Kenney responds to immigration story

Argues systemic changes will not harm gay refugees

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No policy changes for Russian LGBT refugees

Government voices support for refugees, but groups say it’s getting harder to claim asylum

By Dylan Robertson

Power

Canada grants asylum to Montenegro’s highest-profile gay activist

Government of Montenegro failed to protect Zdravko Cimbaljevic: IRB

By Shauna Lewis

Opinion

Anal tests in the Arab world

How does Kuwait plan to test for homosexuality at its border?

By Ahmed Danny Ramadan

Power

European Court of Justice supports gay African asylum seekers

Judgment handed down in case involving men from Senegal, Sierra Leone and Uganda

By Natasha Barsotti

Power

Montenegrin gay activist seeks asylum in Canada

Zdravko Cimbaljevic says his life is in danger at home

By Shauna Lewis

When getting to Canada is a last chance

Documentary follows queer refugees as they struggle to make new lives

By Simon Thibault

Power

Foreign-service strike keeping queer refugees in limbo, says refugee group

Director of Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees says his group has lost contact with Turkish embassy

By Justin Ling