Shelter for gay refugees opens in Berlin
- 8 years ago
A gay rights group in Germany is opening a new home in Berlin on Tuesday for homosexual refugees.
The project by Schwulenberatung Berlin is in cooperation with the city council will create shelter for over 120 people. It follows another small 10-bed shelter which has recently opened in Nuremberg.
Across Europe, gay migrants are reported to have suffered abuse in refugee shelters, with some being forced to move out.
“They are refugees like any other refugee, but they are also culturally isolated. And they have experienced a lot of violence. It starts with psychological violence… And it goes from verbal expressions of disapproval to discrimination up to physical violence with broken arms, broken noses, there’ve even been some murder attempts,” said Stephan Jaekel, head of the Berlin Homosexual Counsel’s gay refugees department.
Mahmoud Hassino, a 40-year-old gay refugee from Syria, said the new shelter would be a big improvement for gay, lesbian and transgender people who had suf
The project by Schwulenberatung Berlin is in cooperation with the city council will create shelter for over 120 people. It follows another small 10-bed shelter which has recently opened in Nuremberg.
Across Europe, gay migrants are reported to have suffered abuse in refugee shelters, with some being forced to move out.
“They are refugees like any other refugee, but they are also culturally isolated. And they have experienced a lot of violence. It starts with psychological violence… And it goes from verbal expressions of disapproval to discrimination up to physical violence with broken arms, broken noses, there’ve even been some murder attempts,” said Stephan Jaekel, head of the Berlin Homosexual Counsel’s gay refugees department.
Mahmoud Hassino, a 40-year-old gay refugee from Syria, said the new shelter would be a big improvement for gay, lesbian and transgender people who had suf