LGBTQ refugees, trapped in the brutal camps of Greece, are unprotected and rarely talked about.
Helen Benedict, a professor at Columbia University, is the author of seven novels, five books of nonfiction, and a play. Her forthcoming books, the novel The Good Deed, and the nonfiction Map of Hope and Sorrow, are both about refugees in Greece, the work from which this article is taken. Benedict's coverage of sexual assault in the U.S. military inspired the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Invisible War and instigated a landmark lawsuit against the Pentagon on behalf of victims of military sexual assault. Benedict has published widely and spoken at Harvard University, TED Talks, West Point, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the United Nations, among other campuses and organizations. A recipient of the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, among other awards, Benedict is also recently the author of the novel Wolf Season, the non-fiction book The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women in Iraq, and a play, The Lonely Soldier Monologues.