Sure. Rainbow Refugee is a Vancouver-based group. We've been around since 2000. We hold drop-in meetings at the community centre for LGBT persons twice a month. Basically this is a place for people to learn about the refugee process and, I would say, to gain social support from each other. We also liaise with settlement organizations and lawyers, because it is often challenging, as we've said, for someone to come in and say, “I'm gay; I need to make a refugee claim.”
They continue to need the support of settlement organizations. Our support helps to make it easier for them to go in and get the help they need. We also connect them with lawyers who are familiar with these kinds of claims, because, again, it is a specialized field. People need to have in-depth experience. Often people arriving at the airport may know that they face risks. They know they are in danger, but they don't understand that the risks and dangers they've faced constitute persecution and they need the help of working with a lawyer to understand this. So we make sure we connect them with lawyers who understand the specifics of homophobic and transphobic persecution.