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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