But when she told the nuns where she had been that day, she was told she could no longer stay in the shelter. The 24-hour shelter provided by the nuns is one of the few places where people in Justine’s situation can find temporary accommodation. Members of the public participate in the Canal Parade as part of the 2016 Amsterdam Gay Pride (Bas Czerwinski/AFP/Getty) She was recently denied a resident permit-on the grounds that she was “not lesbian enough”, according to Groenlinks-but she was planning on working a new application with her lawyer. Justine fled Uganda last year because of the anti- LGBT+ persecution in the country, where being gay is illegal, and applied for asylum in the Netherlands. That day, she also left the shelter to help decorate the boat of the left-wing green party GroenLinks, which she was planning to board on Saturday to take part in the city’s world-famous canal parade. Justine-as the woman was identified in the media-arrived at the shelter on Friday.
An Ugandan asylum seeker was kicked out of a shelter run by the Roman Catholic group Missionaries of Charity in Amsterdam after nuns found out she was gay.