Global: Facebook to help prove gay refugee claimants' sexual orientation

Gay and lesbian refugee claimants struggling to shed old-world views of their sexuality are turning to new-age technology to make their case. Facebook, the popular online social network, is being used as a tool by some claimants to help prove their sexual orientation to immigration officials in Canada. "Sexuality has always been very complicated and when you have to prove it as a matter of life and death you will use any resource you have available to you," says Diego Macias of Among Friends, a Toronto-based gay and lesbian refugee support group.