Mexico - In Juárez, A Migrant Shelter Offers Refuge For LGBTQ Asylum Seekers

Mallory Falk
KERA News

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

painting, 1850s (artist unknown)

Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Manso

Credit:  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Nuestra_Senora_de_Guadalupe_de_los_Manso.jpg

lead story - Colombia’s indigenous transgender women find refuge, freedom working on coffee farms

Kenneth Dickerman
The Washington Post

Coffea canephora

Credit:  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Coffea_canephora_at_Aanakkulam.jpg

please press:  www.washingtonpost.com

ezs note:  Wow! Here I am in Connecticut, enjoying my coffee, when I find out about the hard, industrious work of the pickers!  You are to be commended!  I hope that my work makes life a bit better for all of us.  

Diversity Camp offers refuge from hate

Annie Mccallum
http://www.roanoke.com


to read more, go to:  http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/diversity-camp-offers-refuge-from-hate/article_7b43630e-82ab-5eb9-a0a4-f62004f24a89.html

Arizona 'gay camp' a summer refuge for LGBT youth

Jen Lebron Kuhney
http://www.azcentral.com


to read more, go to:  http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2014/07/31/ariozna-gay-summer-camp/13411925/

From Iran to Turkey to Canada, a transgender woman seeks refuge

Shuka Kalantari
http://www.pri.org/

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ezs note:  The United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) - mentioned in the article - is a very worthy organization.  It is also entirely funded by donations.  To see more about the work that they do, please contact www.unhcr.org.

African homosexuals seek refuge in Kenya (new.kuwaittimes.net (Kuwait))

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