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In what may be a watershed moment for lesbian and gay Caribbeans seeking refuge in other nations, a Jamaican lesbian who fears for her life has been granted asylum in the United Kingdom.

The shocking murder of Uganda gay rights activist David Kato has heightened the urgency surrounding the case of Brenda Namigadde, a lesbian facing deportation from the United Kingdom to the virulently homophobic African country on Friday.

The number of LGBT refugees coming to America every year is on the rise, a possible indication of gay acceptance in the U.S. coupled with the extreme persecution the immigrants are enduring in their home countries. Asylum based on sexual orientation and gender identity has been possible for the last 16 years, thanks to then-Attorney General Janet Reno declaring an LGBT asylum case precedent.

The number of LGBT refugees coming to America every year is on the rise, a possible indication of gay acceptance in the U.S. coupled with the extreme persecution the immigrants are enduring in their home countries. Asylum based on sexual orientation and gender identity has been possible for the last 16 years, thanks to then-Attorney General Janet Reno declaring an LGBT asylum case precedent.

A Kenyan nun who came to the U.S. on a student visa realized that coming out would jeopardize her life if she returned to her home country.

A lesbian who deserted the U.S. Military two years ago and fled to Canada citing harassment due to her sexual orientation has been given another shot at refugee status, Canada's Federal Court ruled Friday. Bethany Smith, who has said she fled the army after an onslaught of harassing messages and threats from other soldiers based on her lesbianism took her case to federal court in Canada after the Immigration and Refugee Board in Canada, rejected her plea for refugee status.

Lilian Ikulmet, the former head of Uganda’s female rugby team has been granted asylum in Germany after facing harassment and violence in her home country after sports officials learned she’s a lesbian.

The first promo is out for American Horror Story: Asylum, and it looks like the show is going to be amazingly creepy as hell! The series stars Jessica Lange as a sadistic nun who runs Briarcliff, an asylum in Massachusetts, and costars out actress Sarah Paulson as a lesbian journalist committed by her girlfriend, Chloe Sevigny as Shelley the nymphomaniac, Lily Rabe, Zachary Quinto, Adam Levine and James Cromwell.

The new season of American Horror Story, starring Jessica Lange and located in an asylum, premieres Oct. 17, and Entertainment Weekly has the first photos of AHS Asylum’s characters. And while we knew that out actress Sarah Paulson, who played a medium on the show’s first season, would be back, we did not realize that she’s playing a lesbian.

A new promo is out for American Horror Story: Asylum, and if you look really hard you’ll catch a glimpse of out Emmy nominee Sarah Paulson, who plays a lesbian journalist named Lana in the second season, which stars Jessica Lange as the sadistic nun who runs Briarcliff, an asylum in Massachusetts. While short, the promo includes plenty of images of Lange looking evil and imposing.

In this week's finale to American Horror Story: Asylum, out actor Sarah Paulson proved once again she's got the chops to create compelling characters, like AHS' intrepid lesbian reporter Lana Winters, that keep our eyes glued to the screen.

The tiny island-nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines may conjure thoughts of sunny, sandy beaches, but residents of the island, many of whom are female, are making up one of the largest groups to seek asylum in Canada over the last decade. Though the islands are thought of as a traveler’s haven, the nation has been enduring low trade, 22% unemployment, and growing domestic violence rates.

American Horror Story: Asylum is officially done torturing the TV viewing public, but the show’s breakout star Sarah Paulson is still on hot on everyone’s radar. The actress is currently starring in the Roundabout Theater’s production of Lanford Wilson’s Talley’s Folley, but she took a little time to chat with W magazine about just what her AHS character Lana Winters meant to her.

Actress Clea DuVall recently sat down with Vulture Magazine to discuss her role as Wendy, a closeted teacher, in FX’s horror-thriller American Horror Story: Asylum, whether or not she is worried about being typecast, how Hollywood’s portrayal of gay characters has evolved since the late 90s release of her cult classic But I’m a Cheerleader, and the difference between just a kiss and a “lesbian kiss.”

Maria Schneider, who gained cinema immortality with her torrid performance opposite Marlon Brando in the controversial 1972 drama Last Tango in Paris, has died at 58. Schneider came out as bisexual in 1974 and the following year starred opposite Jack Nicholson in Michelangelo Antonioni's highly regarded existential drama The Passenger. Her post-Tango career was hindered by drug addiction and mental illness. After walking off the set of the 1979 film Caligula she reportedly checked herself into an asylum.

American Horror Story fanatics never fear! FX has renewed Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s twisted series for a third season, and its current, award-winning star Jessica Lange will be back for the next season. The second season of the creepfest American Horror Story: Asylum is currently about halfway through its season and costars out actress Sarah Paulson as a lesbian journalist imprisoned in a mental institution circa the 1960s. The series also stars Chloe Sevigny as a nymp, Lily Rabe as repressed nun in love with a former Nazi doctor (James Cromwell) and so much more.