Immigration, Migration, and Refugee Activists in the LGBTQ Community
From QueerBio.com
Australia
- Neil Pharaoh, Managing Director of GiveOUT
Belgium
- Pascal Smet, former Commissioner General for refugees and stateless people
Canada
- Michael Battista, lawyer
- Morton Beiser, academic
- Andre Boisclair, former Minister of Immigration
- Andre Boulerice, former Immigration Minister
- Tatiana Ferguson, activist
- El-Farouk Khaki, Lawyer
- Arsham Parsi, founder and head of the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees
- Kimahli Powell, Executive Director, Rainbow Railroad
- Paul Wong, multi-media artist
Egypt
- Suma Abdelsamie, transgender founder of LGBTQ Refugees Welcome
France
- Claudie Lesselier, activist
Great Britain
- S Chelvan, barrister
- Ian Duncan, Deputy Speaker, House of Lords
- Nancy Kelley, Chief Executive Officer of Stonewall UK
- Sebastian Rocca, founder, Micro Rainbow International
Jamaica
- Maurice Tomlinson, lawyer
Nigeria
- Richard Akuson, activist and lawyer
- Aderonke Apata, activist
Philippines
- Jose Antonio Vargas, journalist
Spain
- Jesus Vasquez, Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees
Sweden
- Tobias Billstrom, former Minister for Migration Policy and Asylum Policy.
Syria
- Subhi Nahas, activist with ORAM - Organization for Refugee, Asylum, and Migration
The Netherlands
- Wim van de Camp, politician
Uganda
- Abbey Kiwanuka, Chief Executive, Out and Proud Diamond Group
United States
- Rane Ramon Arroyo, writer
- Joe Bertolino, academic
- Eliane Fersan, consulting
- Jennicet Gutierrez, activist
- Matt McTighe, activist
- Tony Navarrete, politician
- Trina Olsen, Immigration Equality
- Eleanor Roosevelt, activist
- Chase Strangio, lawyer
- Rachel B. Tiven, immigration activist
- Carmen Vazquez, former Director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights