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ro. Married. You know, typical American just living the dream.I have spent plenty of my life feeling sorry for myself. Still do it sometimes to entertain my twisted mind. That’s really a whole different story. But suffice it to say, I’ve been through some stuff. Hard stuff.Yeah.I “call bullsh*t” This? What these refugees are living? This is hard.Imagine fleeing from your home country because you were caught with your same-sex lover. Caught in the act. In Uganda. Where they kill you for those sorts of things.Then, you get rounded up and sent to a refugee camp by the government ruling the land you fled to for a better life.After that, things get ugly. In a way that we don’t see much of where I live, in White, Catholic, central Minnesota, USA.Let me make a little aside here: things in the good old USA haven’t been looking so hot lately. But it isn’t like this. You see, then the people in the refugee camp decide all the LGBT people should be in one Block. You know, away from everyone else. Like lepers.And you’re attacked and ambushed and injured and tormented. Every single day, it continues. And you have zero hope of ever getting to l

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eave. This is life in Kakuma Refugee Camp, where the LGBTQ community is housed in Block 13. What a nightmare. Or, as my new Facebook friend, Hady, told me,“This is the place where you ask God to take your life before he calls you.”<figure id="fb36"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*uLADb2yK9ewgjNGNKPYdcA.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo provided by subject and used with permission</figcaption></figure>Free Block 13 and all the LGBTQ refugees in Kakuma.Evacuate them all, or they will all lose their lives. I’ve chatted with several people living there. They all say the same thing: Evacuate us or we will die.Please. What can you do right now to help Free these LGBTQ refugees?I’ll be back. Thank you for reading.If you’re wondering about me, <a href="https://readmedium.com/heres-your-quick-introduction-to-mama-t-edc7a95c5325?source=friends_link&sk=415d639eb587d9a69b6356931cd3b49c">this is a quick glimpse</a>.And I have a video of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/callyourmamat">an activist for the LGBT community at</a> Kakuma, as they are mourning the loss of a precious little one over here.</article></body>

KAKUMA| LGBTQ| LGBT

Kakuma- the Land of Forgotten LGBT Refugees

Wow. Why is this American woman so damn ignorant?

The picture above is what I think of when I think of Kenya. And those fancy rich people who go there to shoot photos of beautiful animals (or the rich people who go there to shoot beautiful animals. )

The picture below is what Kenya looks like to so many people. No one wants to be there, and yet, it seems like a life sentence for so many.

Photo by Hady Nakawooya Hadijah used with permission.

This is the Kakuma Refugee Camp.

Right off the bat, I‘ll tell you, so there is no confusion. It’s me. I’m the ignorant American woman I mentioned above. White. Hetero. Married. You know, typical American just living the dream.

I have spent plenty of my life feeling sorry for myself. Still do it sometimes to entertain my twisted mind. That’s really a whole different story. But suffice it to say, I’ve been through some stuff. Hard stuff.

Yeah.

I “call bullsh*t” This? What these refugees are living? This is hard.

Imagine fleeing from your home country because you were caught with your same-sex lover. Caught in the act. In Uganda. Where they kill you for those sorts of things.

Then, you get rounded up and sent to a refugee camp by the government ruling the land you fled to for a better life.

After that, things get ugly. In a way that we don’t see much of where I live, in White, Catholic, central Minnesota, USA.

Let me make a little aside here: things in the good old USA haven’t been looking so hot lately. But it isn’t like this. You see, then the people in the refugee camp decide all the LGBT people should be in one Block. You know, away from everyone else. Like lepers.

And you’re attacked and ambushed and injured and tormented. Every single day, it continues. And you have zero hope of ever getting to leave. This is life in Kakuma Refugee Camp, where the LGBTQ community is housed in Block 13. What a nightmare. Or, as my new Facebook friend, Hady, told me,

“This is the place where you ask God to take your life before he calls you.”

Photo provided by subject and used with permission

Free Block 13 and all the LGBTQ refugees in Kakuma.

Evacuate them all, or they will all lose their lives. I’ve chatted with several people living there. They all say the same thing: Evacuate us or we will die.

Please. What can you do right now to help Free these LGBTQ refugees?

I’ll be back. Thank you for reading.

If you’re wondering about me, this is a quick glimpse.

And I have a video of an activist for the LGBT community at Kakuma, as they are mourning the loss of a precious little one over here.