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Since 2022, Asylum Pride House in West Philadelphia has supported LGBTQ+ asylum seekers with housing and a range of legal, health care and employment services.

It’s the only organization of its kind in the nation.

Victoria Sirois founded the organization after seeing a need for it while working at a national resettlement agency.

“A lot of case managers … were coming to me, knowing that I had been doing a lot of DEI training around working with LGBTQ populations, being that it’s my community,” she said. “They were coming, being like, ‘Our clients are being kicked out of the shelters. We don’t really know where to go. They don’t have family or friends. Where are the resou

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