Wu Tsang's documentary "Wildness," having its world premiere Wednesday night, is a portrait of the Silver Platter, a landmark bar in East Los Angeles that has long provided a friendly refuge for gay and lesbian Latino immigrants.
Amid Florida's theme parks and overdeveloped beach fronts, a slow-paced, family friendly refuge cuts against all Sunshine State stereotypes.
"It's an impossible choice," said Nathaniel Fields, president and CEO of the Urban Resource Institute (URI), which runs shelters serving an estimated 1,600 people annually, among them the pet-friendly domestic violence refuge where Cee-Cee and her family live.
Child-friendly spaces provide refuge for families in war-torn Libya BENGHAZI, Libya, 20 May 2011 – Etaj, 11, and Hanni, 12, (not their real names), are taking their drawing very seriously amid the surrounding clatter of chairs and chatter of other children.
Child-friendly spaces provide refuge for cyclone-affected children in Myanmar YANGON, Myanmar, 5 June 2008 – At the offices of the Yangon Kayin Baptist Women's Association, a room once used for storing office equipment and documents is now filled with laughing and playing children, all of whom were displaced by Cyclone Nargis.
Many Jews left hurriedly to seek refuge in friendly countries, including Britain, but Britain was already in the grip of an "aliens scare".
Artabanus fled and took refuge with the friendly Apasiacae, as had his father, Arsaces.
The group has taken flack for buying ads supporting conservative politicians that back immigration and education reform, but also the Keystone XL pipeline and drilling in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge that eco-friendly liberals denounce.
The 'child-friendly centres' provide an important refuge for Darfur's children, but much more is needed to ensure that they and their families have a future they can look forward to.
Audience: Readers eager to go "off the grid" and follow, for example, a Microsoft executive who takes "refuge in his eco-friendly getaway in Los Zacatitos, Mexico".
The Post reported that, in 2012, approximately 8,000 Americans are projected to renounce their U.S. citizenship in order to seek refuge in more tax-friendly countries (Costa Rica, Singapore, Cayman Islands, Antigua, et al).
