The LGBT Refugee Crisis

KHRCA 2016-17 Colloquia - Fleeing Genocide: Displacement, Exile and the Refugee. Event 6: The LGBT Refugee Crisis.

Speakers: Hon. Daniel Dromm, New York City Council Member; Pamela Denzer, Client Programs Director and BIA, Immigration Equality; Jamila Hammami, Executive Director, Queer Detainee Empowerment Project; and Dr. Amy Traver, Associate Professor of English, Queensborough Community College.

Through personal stories of LGBT refugees, this program led by Councilman Dromm, examines the challenges facing LGBT populations in Africa and in exile.