#11 The Queer Issue
LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers Struggle to Prove Their Sexuality to Authorities
“What were the colours of your bedsheets?” LGBTQ asylum seekers searching for safety were asked.
24 June 2021
“What were the colours of your bedsheets?” LGBTQ asylum seekers searching for safety were asked.
In at least a few noticeable ways, Muslims have thus become “the new Jews,” scapegoats onto whom Europeans tend to project their anxieties about the future. But that doesn’t mean there has been a passing of the torch from anti-Semitism to Islamophobia.
“In France I don’t have the feeling of being ‘read’ as black. It’s a liberation and a shock to most black Americans when they leave the States.”