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May 21, 2007 Quickie Link: Under the Gaydar
By vanrozenheim

(Australia) - Late 2003 and two gay Bangladeshi refugees were celebrating a great victory. The High Court of Australia had ruled in their favour. "R" and "J" could, it seemed, stay in Australia on the ground of their homosexuality. The refugee action community assumed the men had settled into Australia. But The Bulletin has found the couple are still fighting after the secretive Refugee Review Tribunal came up with a way to get rid of them: it told them they were not gay. To be told he is not gay, says R, "hurts me, it's shocked me. Without any evidence, they are saying I'm not gay. It destroys my inner side."



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