Originally posted January 3, 2017
Life in the United States has never been easy for immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. But now, following record deportations during the Obama administration, we have a new president elected on an explicitly bigoted, anti-immigrant and anti-LGBT platform.
The Chicago LGBT Asylum Support Partners (CLASP) provides d
irect aid – housing, local transportation and other necessities – to LGBT asylum seekers in Chicago fleeing anti-LGBT discrimination and violence in their homelands.
As the days for our foreign-born LGBT neighbors perhaps go from bad to worse, please stand up and be counted as one of those who proudly SUPPORT LGBT asylum seekers as they begin a new life in the United States.
Please come to a house dinner party fundraiser for CLASP, 5 – 10 pm, Saturday, January 28 at the home of Andy Thayer and Aldo Hernandez in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, 4745 N. Beacon Street. Suggested donation is $35, or a gift of your choosing. RSVP to LGBTliberation@aol.com by January 16th.