Unzipped: Gay Armenia

Good news. Finally, after a year of being stuck in a real-life “The Terminal” status, stateless gay Armenian will be allowed entry back into...

UPDATE 16 February 2013 :   Good news: stateless gay Armenian will be allowed entry back into US *Via CNN and Huffington Post In th...

*via Haarets The man who would be Israeli Tobmas Glastian came to Israel to become a priest. But once he came out as gay and left the chu...

Twenty-six member states have explicitly recognised in their national legislation that sexual orientation is included in the notion of “memb...

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* Digital Journa l Kiana Firouz, a young up-and-coming lesbian actress, filmmaker and gay activist from Iran now living in the UK as a ref...

Looking at archive materials, I came across this extremely sad, chilling story of 2001. Back then, gay male sex was still a criminal offence...

* Georgia Today “My worst experience was not long ago, 2004, when a straight man made me give him a blow job and then threw me down the st...

I wrote extensively about the case of gay Azeri artist Babi B. He fled his native Azerbaijan due to homophobia, seeking for asylum in the U...

I covered gay Azeri artist Babi B’s story (asylum seeker in the UK with the subsequent deportation) in a number of posts . However, there ha...

This gay Iranian guy may well have Armenian origin, as his surname suggests (Bagherian)... UPDATE (26 November 2008) : Great news: Cyprus gr...

Via No Borders South Wales , this call "for a sustained campaign against BMI. We call on BMI to no longer take part in the forced depor...

Breaking news: Sorry, Babi! We failed to keep you in the UK and potentially safeguard your life. If anything happens to Babi in Azerbaij...

*source: No Borders South Wales Babakhan (Babi) B was supposed to be deported back to Azerbaijan on Azerbaijan Airlines on the J2800 fligh...

More bad news following gay Azerbaijani artist Babi B's detention (he is seeking an asylum in the UK). No Borders South Wales reports...

Here is the message I got from the Keep Babi Safe in Cardiff Facebook group in support to gay Azeri artist Babi B's asylum campaign: ...

No Borders South Wales reports that "Babi B has been campaigning to stay in the UK since his claim for asylum was rejected. He has be...

*based on No Borders South Wales and International Campaign Against Honour Killings Babakhan B, (Babi) is an openly gay, internationally ...

Just received this from a gay rights group in Greece. TO: The European Parliament, European Political Parties, Humanitarian Organizations, I...

An asylum seeker who was deported to Iran in 2004 has been describing how he managed to escape from custody and make his way back to the UK....