International Safe Zone

Learning more about intersectionality and complexity of international LGBTQ+ in the United States and providing a safe place to learn and explore about their sexual and affectional identity.

By Kyoung Mi Choi

Kyoung Mi Choi
Welcome! International Safe Zone supports international students who identify as LGBTQ+. In this magazine we collect stories...
Kyoung Mi Choi
Apr 16, 2017
Kyoung Mi Choi
The Guatemalan asylum seeker who created a refuge for gay and transgender migrants on the US border
El Pais - Lorena Arroyo
Kissing his partner goodbye on a normal day before heading to work changed the life of 32-year-old Estuardo Cifuentes forever. It was mid-2019 when …
3 days ago
Christel van der Boom
Hainan
The double lives of gay men in Chinas Hainan province: Navigating visibility and invisibility in public spaces - Firstpost
Firstpost
By James Cummings It’s around 7.30 pm on a warm November evening in Jiaji, the county capital of Qionghai, on the east coast of Hainan, an island …
Mar 17
Kyoung Mi Choi
Beijing
'Beautiful and fierce': Voguing balls let LGBT Chinese shine
channelnewsasia.com
BEIJING: Leather, glitter, stilettos and a strut - voguing, the underground dance phenomenon, has seized Beijing and given China's LGBT community a …
Mar 30
Kyoung Mi Choi
Civil Rights
Will Bolivia’s First Same-Sex Union Lead to More LGBT Rights?
worldpoliticsreview.com - Linda Farthing
In December, Guido Montano and David Aruquipa became the first gay couple to register a civil union in Bolivia. “When I heard the news, I …
Apr 1