“I will feel free here,” says Niyaz (pseud. 24) when asked about his future in Spain.

“Here is where everything is great.” Niyaz fled Baku, Azerbaijan due to the homophobia he experienced from his family and his community. “You can’t go with your boyfriend in outside…. it can be dangerous.” He says of his country, “it’s great country, if you are tourist there. But when you are living there, it’s really too hard.” He says the cost of living is high, but wages are low, and that the people “don’t love the life. They want just get money and spend money… but our lives, I think more than these, these things.” He first left Baku after studying, moving to Turkey and then Ukraine, where met his boyfriend. But he again faced discrimination and so moved to Spain where he would be safer. He now waits for his boyfriend to arrive. “I have a dream to… feel really free and happy with my boyfriend… I want to get marriage with him and have a child, so we have plans about that and it’s our dream.” Full Story

“I will feel free here,” says Niyaz (pseud. 24) when asked about his future in Spain.

“Here is where everything is great.” Niyaz fled Baku, Azerbaijan due to the homophobia he experienced from his family and his community. “You can’t go with your boyfriend in outside…. it can be dangerous.” He says of his country, “it’s great country, if you are tourist there. But when you are living there, it’s really too hard.” He says the cost of living is high, but wages are low, and that the people “don’t love the life. They want just get money and spend money… but our lives, I think more than these, these things.” He first left Baku after studying, moving to Turkey and then Ukraine, where met his boyfriend. But he again faced discrimination and so moved to Spain where he would be safer. He now waits for his boyfriend to arrive. “I have a dream to… feel really free and happy with my boyfriend… I want to get marriage with him and have a child, so we have plans about that and it’s our dream.” Full Story