As a long-time queer advocate and activist, I feel the same way you feel as an academic.

I'm quite regularly in contact with desperate queer refugees at the UN Kakuma refugee center in Kenya.

I occasionally write stories about their desperate plights. What always strikes me is how homophobic the camp administrators are. A place queer refugees at Kakuma in Great danger, constantly, seemingly on purpose.

The UN refuses to act to remove camp employees and replace them with people with better values.

Of course, what's worse is that third country relocation is almost impossible. The queer young people living in such desperate straits, hungry and lacking medical care, live without hope.

It seems like nobody in the developed world cares enough to act.

I guess I don't mean nobody. Fabulous organizations like the Rainbow Railroad race funds and do what they can. Tiny countries like Canada consistently punch above their weight being decent and good.

But most of us just don't care.

That's so sad depressing.

Thank you for writing this story!

Unfortunately, if you're writing goes like mine, when you write about queer refugees, you'll get the least attention of any of your articles.

Because for some reason, people just refuse to care.