After Rapes, Arrest, Mexican Man Pleads for Asylum

Neal Broverman

Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.

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A former principal in Mexico is asking the U.S. government to grant him asylum after he was arrested for wearing a red dress at a gay rights rally in 2007 and then repeatedly raped in prison.

For wearing the dress, Agustin Estrada Negrete was not only fired from his job but imprisoned. Negrete says he was raped 40 times while in jail -- a claim backed up by the Red Cross. More recently, he was gang-raped by three men, prompting a human rights group to fly him to the U.S. Negrete, 35, is currently in San Diego and working with American officials so he can stay in the U.S.

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