Stuck in Greece: An LGBT Refugee Crisis | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

When brought to Athens, Greece in 2016 for a screening of his film Daddy, actor and filmmaker Gerald McCullouch (CSI, Ph | dG1fNUNiall5cksyaWs

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00:00In the Arab community, it's not acceptable to be gay.

00:26In the Arab community, it's not acceptable to be gay.

00:43To be gay in Syria, whether Syria or Jordan or the whole Middle East, is not safe.

00:49I got raped when I was eight years old.

00:53They killed us and attacked us and arrested us without reason, just because we are LGBT.

01:02We need the freedom for us.

01:05We need to live together.

01:08We need to be together.

01:10It's a curse to be LGBT.

01:25It's not safe. I cannot stay in this situation.

01:29I say I must survive. I must escape again.

01:33I've traveled to Greece, but I'm stuck here now.

01:42Nobody cares about us in Greece. Nobody.

01:48Just the reality of it is so rich in terms of characters, circumstances.

01:56You get a sense of perspective when you meet LGBTQ refugees

02:00and what the struggle is elsewhere, what the struggle is here,

02:03and realizing just how oppressed they are and how they persevere.

02:07And if they persevere, then we must persevere ten times more.

02:11Our main problem is that we are from the LGBT community.

02:16This is who we are. We were created like this.

02:20We didn't choose to be like this.

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