Dear Friend, My name is Ilo and I am a non-binary educator, writer, photographer, doctor, asylum winner, and new U.S. citizen. I was born and raised in Venezuela. There, I was an expedition/emergency doctor, but I...

Dear Friend, My name is Mikaela and I am a proud trans woman and an immigrant from Perú. My life in Perú was very hard because of transphobia. I had trans friends who were older than...

Dear Friend, My name is Marlon and I am a gay man from Colombia. I never felt safe in Colombia due to the constant threat of homophobic violence. After being brutally attacked by a group of...

Dear Friend, My name is Victor and I am a gay man from Colombia. A little more than five years ago, I came to New York on vacation and met Derick, the love of my life....

Dear Friend, My name is Tarek and I am a gay man from Egypt. It is a crime to be gay there. As a young man, I was arrested, persecuted, and humiliated by the police for...

Dear Friend, You may remember our client Denis Davydov, who is a gay and HIV-positive asylum seeker from Russia. Last March, we fought to free Denis from immigration detention after he was wrongfully detained for traveling...