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A Long Way From Home
Carl Siciliano
6 episodes
1 day ago
A Long Way From Home is a podcast dedicated to exploring how LGBTQ people experience exile and displacement. This exploration will take in the personal, political, and spiritual dimensions of homelessness. While the podcast is centered on the experiences of young people who experience family rejection and homelessness, it also examines intersecting modes of how we experience of exile and displacement in the broader queer community and the ways we achieve healing, empowerment and community. The podcast will be hosted by Carl Siciliano, who founded the Ali Forney Center.
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A Long Way From Home is a podcast dedicated to exploring how LGBTQ people experience exile and displacement. This exploration will take in the personal, political, and spiritual dimensions of homelessness. While the podcast is centered on the experiences of young people who experience family rejection and homelessness, it also examines intersecting modes of how we experience of exile and displacement in the broader queer community and the ways we achieve healing, empowerment and community. The podcast will be hosted by Carl Siciliano, who founded the Ali Forney Center.
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A Long Way From Home - Episode 4 - Edafe Okporo
A Long Way From Home
48 minutes 44 seconds
4 years ago
A Long Way From Home - Episode 4 - Edafe Okporo

Edafe Okporo joins Carl Siciliano to discuss his struggle for self acceptance as a religious youth, experiencing severe persecution as a gay activist in Nigeria and as an immigrant in the United States, his founding the RJD shelter for refugees, and his expansive vision of global LGBTQ equality.

For more information on topics discussed in this podcast episode:

About Edafe Okporo https://www.edafeokporo.com/

About the RDJ Refugee Shelter http://rdjrefugeeshelter.org/

About Immigration Equality https://immigrationequality.org/

About the Community Health Initiative for Youth In Nigeria https://chiynigeria.org/

A Long Way From Home
A Long Way From Home is a podcast dedicated to exploring how LGBTQ people experience exile and displacement. This exploration will take in the personal, political, and spiritual dimensions of homelessness. While the podcast is centered on the experiences of young people who experience family rejection and homelessness, it also examines intersecting modes of how we experience of exile and displacement in the broader queer community and the ways we achieve healing, empowerment and community. The podcast will be hosted by Carl Siciliano, who founded the Ali Forney Center.