Ahmad Danny Ramadan is a Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker, storyteller and an LGBTQ-refugee activist.

His debut English language novel, The Clothesline Swing, was published to acclaim in Canada in 2017, winning the Independent Publisher Gold Medal for LGBT Fiction among numerous other accolades, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Lambda Award for Gay Fiction.

Listen to Danny’s TedX talk about his intimate experience of uprooting himself from his homeland to flee from homophobia, and how arriving in a new country as a refugee is not necessarily the happy ending that many perceive it to be.