08/15/2005
Jose Boer-Sedano, a gay Mexican man with AIDS, has been granted asylum by a U.S. Appeals Court. Immigration courts had ordered his deportation. "Boer-Sedano, who now works as a waiter and busboy at a San Francisco hotel, was ostracized by family and friends in the town of Tampico in the eastern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, and was later harassed by co-workers because of his homosexuality, the court said. Boer-Sedano said in the late 1980s a high-ranking officer stopped him nine times over three months and forced him to perform oral sex. The officer threatened to expose his homosexuality, talked about killing him and once held a gun to his head."
Posted 2:09 PM EST by Andy Towle in Elsewhere | Permalink
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OMG....That's horrible what he went through...and I guess it's good he got Asylum...
Posted by: Roy | Aug 15, 2005 2:37:59 PM
Well.... what can I say? I am a Mexican living in Mexico and I have second thoughts... This country isn´t the same one of the late 1980s. We have gay clubs at Reforma Avenue, the principal one in Mexico City; a more and more full Pride March every years since 27 years; we have Puerto Vallarta... I think this guy could have been here nicely if he wanted. Sometimes, it is sad to say, but asylum laws are abused and this may be the case.
Posted by: Alfredo | Aug 15, 2005 5:34:21 PM