This is a reflective effort by two anthropologists from the Global South who have been researching African refugees in North America and Europe. We will discuss the trajectory of our interlocutors, a trans woman from Uganda and a gay man from Equatorial Guinea, until they reach their destination countries, respectively Canada and Spain, and the challenges, dilemmas, perspectives, and activism they have engaged in since then. We aim to explore the relationship between narratives, testimonies, and categories in the context of humanitarianism with a focus on how “LGBTI refugees” reinforce, refuse, or displace certain narrative models when inhabiting this category. The paper draws on the narratives carried out by refugees in different public situations, understood from their double dimension of suffering and political action. When analyzing those narratives, we will focus here on topics such as racism, unemployment, LGBT activism, and African worldviews that transform during the international migration process.