Orville Howden, 39, of Jamaica, is interviewed at a home in Worcester, Mass., recently renovated by the LGBT Asylum Task Force, Dec. 1. 2021. Howden, a gay man who moved into the house in November, said he fled Jamaica in October 2020 after his roommate in Montego Bay was killed for being gay. The Caribbean nation is among roughly 70 countries, mostly in Africa, where homosexuality is explicitly outlawed, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, a Swiss group that tracks such laws. (AP Photo / Steven Senne)