Fadi Hanna
Comment
Punishing Masculinity in Gay Asylum Claims
114 Yale L.J. 913 (2005) Does a homosexual asylum seeker need to prove he is "gay enough" to win protection from a U.S. court? Increasingly, and troublingly, the answer is yes. In In re Soto Vega, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denied a gay man's application for asylum because he appeared too stereotypically heterosexual. The decision is representative of...
Jan 1, 2005