Ayman Eckford is a UK-based freelance journalist as well as an independent analyst for the Solid Info think tank. A transgender person and refugee from Ukraine, Ayman's work covers the LGBT community, Russia, disability rights, and big issues throughout Europe.
“With the unlawful deportation of a gay makeup artist, I see in the US troubling flashbacks to the country I fled: Russia.”
LGBT refugees are among the most motivated, patriotic, and productive newcomers. Turning them away is self-sabotage.
The Assad family’s 53-year dictatorship of Syria is over. But will the new regime be any better for LGBT people?
How conspiracies about “Anglo-Saxons”, LGBT people, and Jews power the Russian war machine in Ukraine.
As state propaganda hijacked Russian LGBT activism, it took a special kind of mascot to claw through the noise.
"As a queer refugee from Ukraine, I take the UK’s Southport riots personally. So should all LGBT people."
