A runaway from Nicaragua, where having a same-sex relationship is a crime, has been denied asylum in Canada because he cannot prove he is gay to the Immigration and Refugee Board.

    [Alvaro Antonio Orozco], now 21, is slated for removal next Tuesday to a country where sodomy is illegal and to a family that he says beat him and taunted him for his sexual orientation ever since he was a young boy.

    “My father called me ‘marica’ [a derogatory word for gay], and told me he would beat it out of me,” Mr. Orozco said. “But it’s impossible to prove you are gay.”

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    Since coming to Toronto two years ago, Mr. Orozco says he has finally felt comfortable to live a gay lifestyle, and spends his weekends at gay bars. “The law protects me here. In Nicaragua, I could be put in jail,” he says. “I still fear my father, who threatened that he would kill me for being gay.”

Globe and Mail reports a board member did not believe Orozco is gay because “he wasn’t sexually active during his teen years, and wasn’t clear about his sexual orientation when he fled Nicaragua at the age of 12.” You know how gays are such sluts in their teen years.