Event Focuses on LGBT Immigrants   ...1 of 1 >
Sept. 9, 2014 - Immigration Equality graphic designer April Lee wraps up after a news conference on "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and queer individuals who have been hurt by our country's dysfunctional immigration policies and practices."  Immigration Equality has provided free legal services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV-positive immigrants since 1994.  Among the participants in this event was José, who immigrated from El Salvador about ten years ago, was granted asylum in 2012, and is now working as a counselor in the San Francisco area.  He recounted how gang members threatened and targeted the gay community in El Salvador, and said detention centers here in the United States can be very dangerous places for members of the LGBT community. 
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