Amid the war in Ukraine, a SanFrancisco based non-profit is working to provide refugees from the LGBTQ community safe shelter in Poland and Romania, where discrimination remains widespread.
"All of these displaced refugees were fleeing into countries that were very homophobic," said Safe Place International founder Justin Hilton."I was working in India and across Asia on women and girl's education and LGBTQ rights and was coming through Istanbul, and in one of my visits to Istanbul a trans person was murdered in the street. She was beheaded by a mob," said Hilton.
"They were meeting the same people in Istanbul that they were escaping from in their home countries," said Hilton. "My parents and I really hear the missiles, the explosions, and the air alarms, and we were really scared," said Umantseva. Adding to their stress initially, the reality of arriving in Poland, a country where discrimination against the LGBTQ community remains widespread. That’s where Safe Place was able to help.
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