The Hunted: New York Magazine

“From Baghdad—frightening reports of gay pogroms, where homosexual men are targeted, tortured, slayed. From New York—a scurry to find those same men before they are killed, and shepherd them to safety.”

Too often we read of grave human rights violations in distant lands. Two New Yorkers tried to help in the only way they could - getting these men out. While obviously removing the gravity of the danger, what implications can offering asylum have? If these men are concealing their sexuality, does shedding their cultural skin when integrating into a new society create an entirely new person?