Secker, ‘Syrian and Iraqi members of LGBT community have found a haven-of-sorts in Istanbul’, 2015
- Category: Other
- Source: Other
- Subject: Refugee/Asylum, LGBT+
- Place: Asia
- Year: 2015
- File: Syrian and Iraqi members of LGBT community have found a haven
- URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syrian-and-iraqi-members-of-lgbt-community-have-found-a-haven-of-sorts-in-istanbul-10453921.html
Bradley Secker, ‘Syrian and Iraqi members of LGBT community have found a haven-of-sorts in Istanbul’, Independent, 16 August 2015
Abstract
Bissam recently fled Damascus, under threat from Isis death squads. His ‘crime’? Being gay. So he made his way to a city where fellow Arab members of the LGBT community have been gathering to seek a new life – and fellowship – in exile…