As 2019 draws to an end ROAR volunteers are thrilled at the success of the three newcomers whose resettlement we have assisted in. Two men from Syria and, ju...

You are cordially invited to attend Nanaimo's second annual PICNIC EN BLANC. It's a real picnic, or peek-neek, however you pronounce it, and this year it wil...

This chapter from a recently published book focuses on narratives of two queer refugee couples who made joint claims in Vancouver, British Columbia. See the ...

A Pakistani refugee claimant is trying to prove he is bisexual so that he can remain in Canada. "It's pretty demeaning to have to go through all these kinds ...

How can the media do a better job of covering refugee issues? What tools and tips should refugees have when speaking with journalists? In June 2018, The Disc...

Canadian researchers are beginning to document the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender refugees who have been resettled in this country. We...

Jean-Nicolas Beuze, representative in Canada of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, has written an article in the Toronto Star about recent right-wing fake news an...

ROAR volunteers from Nanaimo put on a fabulous Picnic en Blanc in June. One hundred picnickers raised $2,000 for LGBT refugee resettlement. We'll do it again...

See at the Picnic en Blanc, Saturday, June 16 at 5pm. We are gathering at the Millstone Estate Winery, 2300 East Wellington Rd, Nanaimo. #BC #ROAR

ROAR's major fundraising event of the year is coming in June! We want you dressed in white, but we know that you represent all the colours of the spectrum, t...

Imagine a walk-a-thon in stilettos. It sounds painful, but that's the point of the Foundation of Hope's annual Strut Vancouver fundraising stroll. According ...

A key way to help an LGBTQ refugee get accepted into Canada is to sponsor them. Private sponsorship, a distinctive Canadian achievement, is one of the ways w...

Find our newsletter on the web. 2018 is our breakthrough year. It began with the arrival in February of the first refugee ROAR sponsored. A second refugee we...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activists from Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa are defying state-sponsored repre...

Hundreds of LGBT refugees come to Canada every year, escaping persecution and violence at home. They face “incredible odds,” says Kimahli Powell, executive d...

Female Turkish director Ayşe Toprak has taken a sensitive subtopic of the Syrian refugee crisis, LGBTQ refugees, and turned it into a documentary. The film a...

In 2013, Zdravko Cimbaljevic had the honour as serving as international grand marshal at Vancouver’s Pride Parade. A week later, he had to hide in his apartm...

"As I Am: Understanding the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity of Refugees" is the first educational film specifically developed to allow lesbian, gay, b...

In "No Place for Me: the Struggles of Sexual and Gender Minority Refugees", lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) urban refugees in Mexico...

This Magazine has published an interview with Ahmad Danny Ramadan, who gave a talk recently at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo. Like the protagonist i...