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Article: More gays seeking US asylum
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 7, 1992
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Peter Chau shudders at the thought of being deported to Hong Kong,
where he says police continue to compile a "pink list" of homosexuals
and where the people named could be forced to submit to "cures" such
as electric shocks once the British colony returns to Chinese rule in
1997.
Chau, who is bisexual and lives in Boston, is among a small but
growing number of people who are seeking asylum in the United States
because they face persecution in their homeland due to their sexual
orientation. His case apparently is the first in Massachusetts.
Chau, 28, who asked that his real name not be used in the event he
is deported, said through an interpreter that he came to the United
States in 1988 and ...