He previously told ITV: “It was always, ‘hide yourself, hide yourself’, and don’t show your colours. “If you show your colours it means that you are going to face the most discriminatory behaviour and homophobia… If people sense that you are gay, they can beat you – and you have no right to complain. “You are the victim at that moment but in the eyes of the law, you are the criminal because you are gay.” But the 28-year-old writer and actor claims he was left feeling “unsafe” after being housed with men from North Africa and the Middle East who subjected him to homophobic abuse, according to the BBC. Although the Home Office insists that accommodation for asylum seekers must “take account of any circumstances and vulnerability”, El Habachi said: “I had fled a country that was dangerous for me, because of who I am, and I was put in an environment that felt more dangerous than the situation that I left.” He is now calling for specialised housing for LGBT+ asylum seekers in Wales, having been told that none existed when he arrived in the UK. He spent 50 days in housing provided by the National Asylum Support Service, a stay that he said “felt like a lifetime”. “I felt so unsafe and vulnerable,” he said. “I thought I would come here and be able to embrace myself but instead I was feeling very insecure. “It was as though there was no effort to make LGBT+ people welcome, the drop-in centres for asylum seekers and refugees weren’t LGBT-friendly, they were mainly aimed towards cis men. I was made to feel unwelcome.”