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Activists Rally for LGBTQ Asylum Seekers
Demonstration, vigil sheds light on experience of queer immigrants
Marchers, led by Iman Le Caire, a board member of TransEmigrate, stepped off at Foley Square.
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Joel Rivera, co-founder of the weekly Stonewall protests in Manhattan.
Manhattan before making a stop
at the Stonewall Inn, where individuals
participated in a candlelight
The Queer Detainee Empowerment
Project, Caribbean Equality
Project, TransEmigrate, VOCALNY,
and Rise and Resist were
among the organizations involved
in the event, along with several
individuals who helped produce
it.
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vigil.
Signs in the crowd discouraged hate and sought
to hold the nation accountable.
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Demonstrators rallied in
Manhattan on March
19 to remember the
life of Faby Federick,
a transgender refugee who died
earlier this month, and urge the
Biden-Harris administration to
protect LGBTQ asylum seekers
and immigrants.
According to the Queer Detainee
Empowerment Project,
Federick fl ed Costa Rica for the
United States, but wound up experiencing
homelessness in Los
Angeles and endured an entire
year in ICE detention. Federick,
who died on March 7, eventually
wound up in New York and
trained as a chef.
Marchers sought to shed light
on Federick’s story — and broadly
highlight the experience of queer
asylum seekers — as they off at Foley
Square and proceeded through
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