Could You 'Play Gay' if Your Life Depended on it? Asylum Seekers Who Don't 'Act Gay' Enough Being Sent Home to Face Death | World | AlterNet

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Could You 'Play Gay' if Your Life Depended on it? Asylum Seekers Who Don't 'Act Gay' Enough Being Sent Home to Face Death | World | AlterNet: "Take the case of Brenda Namigadde, a gay Ugandan asylum seeker in the UK fighting a deportation order. Eight years ago Brenda fled Uganda after she and her partner were beaten, forced in to hiding, and had their house burned to the ground. Last week she was facing deportation, because an immigration judge in the UK didn’t believe that Brenda had offered “sufficient proof” that she is gay. I spoke with Brenda over the phone last week at Yarl’s Wood Detention Center in rural England, where she was being held pending a deportation order for Friday, January 28. She shared with me some of her fears of being deported back to Uganda.

“They’ve put people like me to death there,” Brenda told me. 'I'll be tortured, or killed.”"