Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said people should not be forced to hide their sexual identity to avoid punishmentGermany will implement new rules beginning Saturday for processing asylum applications from LGBTQ persons, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said.Faeser said Friday she wanted to better protect queer refugees and that no one should "feel forced to lead a dangerous double life."Until now, Germany granted asylums to queer refugees fleeing persecution, where it defined persecution as people being threatened with violence, death, imprisonment or other types of inhumane treatment due to their sexual identity, according to Germany's official website for queer refugees.The nature of the frequency of the acts of persecution or discrimination must be so extreme that they constitute a violation of human rights, the website said.Edited by: Farah BahgatSince the introduction of "marriage for all" in Germany, some 65,000 marriages have taken place between people of the same sex."