The Court would first note that the respondent says that he is singled out for persecution because he is gay in his home country. The Court studied the demeanor of this individual very carefully throughout his testimony in Court today, and this gentleman does not appear to be overtly gay. The Court does not know whether he is or not, his testimony is that he is overtly gay and has been since he was 17 years old. Be that as it may, it is not readily apparent to a person who would see this gentleman for the first time that, that is the case, since he bears no effeminate traits or any other trait that would mark him as a homosexual.
Mladen Zeljko Todorovic v. U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Court of Appeals for Eleventh Circuit, no. 09-11625, 27 September 2010, p. 7 (citing oral decision of the Immigration Judge)
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