Gay People Are Hunted Down and Beaten in a Country Once a Refuge

were ostracized for opposing an industry that was bringing so much money into the community. But

Because of the Stonewall uprising, people saw homosexuals no longer as criminals or sinners or mentally ill, but as something like members of a minority group. It was an oceanic change in thinking.

In Uganda, as elsewhere, Indians—including Gujaratis—had formed a shopkeeper class. They became a prime target of the extreme and violent form of nationalism that the dictator espoused, their plight the most vivid and traumatic example of "pariah capitalism" that our diaspora had encountered. After the 1972 expulsion, thousands of refugee

There was no one to encourage them to believe that they were innocent because homosexuality in and of itself is innocent.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Haitians, escaping poverty and unrest, sought refuge in the Bahamas as well. It was and remains a deeply stratified place, sitting at a crossroads, with the global elites and their tax havens at the top and poor Haitians living in shanties at the bottom. It is one of the tragic ironies of global history tha

horrid people with dyed hair and painted faces."

aims to “educate people on what they can do to defend, protect and promote traditional, biblical values,” decried the partnership between the Born This Way Foundation and Office Depot. The organization was upset that Office Depot was selling a line of back-to-school items with the Foundation’s messages on them and donating 25 percent of the sales w

He and his six brothers, he says, fled to Uganda when the Muslims killed his parents in the war. They lived by hunting in the bush. Now all his brothers are famous. So he says. Why not believe him, until it becomes important?