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Russia: 'AIDS Boy,' 'Dog,' And 'Disgrace To Society': How Russia Greets Gay Men Seeking Asylum

In mid-July, a gay, HIV-positive foreigner arrived at an immigration office in Moscow seeking asylum in Russia. Unlike in his native Uzbekistan, where sex between men is punishable by up to three years in prison, Russia has not criminalized homosexual relations.

Uganda backtracks on festival cancelled over sex, gays and the devil

The annual four-day party on the edge of the Nile in the southern town of Jinja brings together artists from across Africa to entertain around 10,000 revellers and has been held for the last three years.

Canada: Asylum seekers caught up in battle amid Tory, Ford and Trudeau governments

“It seems more like a chaotic, topsy-turvy system,” Miller told Global News. “It’s like you already started to set up your life here and all of a sudden, you’re uprooted so you have to get accustomed to a whole new city, a whole new way of doing things.”