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In reply to the discussion: A thread for GLBT martyrs [View all]theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)29. Remembering our brothers and sisters in South Africa
Lesbians Eudy Simelane and Noxolo Nogwaza, murdered 2008 and 2011, respectively, South Africa. Eudy was gang-raped and stabbed to death. Her naked body was dumped in a stream in the Kwa Thema township outside Johannesburg. Noxolo was raped, and stabbed multiple times with glass shards. Her skull was shattered. Her eyes were reportedly gouged from their sockets. Ms. Nogwaza had been seen earlier that evening in a bar with a female friend.
Zukiswa Gaca, 2009. Lesbian victim of corrective rape
Tebogo Motswagi, a transgender woman, in 2001 was raped by seven men and penetrated with a broomstick.
Thamsanqa Mdluli was gang raped in 1994. During the attack, one of the men told Thamsanqa that they were raping him to restore his manhood
Simphiwe Thandeka, lesbian, three times a victim of corrective rape. The first rape was by her Uncle, the second by her uncles friend, who raped Simphiwe multiple times and beat her with a clothes hanger. He told me I was going to be his wife and not a lesbian, she said. The third rape was committed by a local priest.
Lindeka Stulo, who in 2010 was attacked by a man while walking home. He slammed her head into a nearby wall with a heavy crate. Two weeks later, the same man struck her on the back of the head with a bar. You are a girl, not a boy, she remembers hearing. "I am going to beat you until you stop what you are doing with other girls.
Pearl Mali was raped for the first time by an elderly man whom her mother brought home from church. She was 12 years old. The man raped her in her bedroom almost daily until she was 16 years old. My mother didnt want me to be gay so she asked him to move in and be my husband. She hoped it would change me.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/07/26/opinion/26corrective-rape.html?_r=1&
Zukiswa Gaca, 2009. Lesbian victim of corrective rape
Tebogo Motswagi, a transgender woman, in 2001 was raped by seven men and penetrated with a broomstick.
Thamsanqa Mdluli was gang raped in 1994. During the attack, one of the men told Thamsanqa that they were raping him to restore his manhood
Simphiwe Thandeka, lesbian, three times a victim of corrective rape. The first rape was by her Uncle, the second by her uncles friend, who raped Simphiwe multiple times and beat her with a clothes hanger. He told me I was going to be his wife and not a lesbian, she said. The third rape was committed by a local priest.
Lindeka Stulo, who in 2010 was attacked by a man while walking home. He slammed her head into a nearby wall with a heavy crate. Two weeks later, the same man struck her on the back of the head with a bar. You are a girl, not a boy, she remembers hearing. "I am going to beat you until you stop what you are doing with other girls.
Pearl Mali was raped for the first time by an elderly man whom her mother brought home from church. She was 12 years old. The man raped her in her bedroom almost daily until she was 16 years old. My mother didnt want me to be gay so she asked him to move in and be my husband. She hoped it would change me.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/07/26/opinion/26corrective-rape.html?_r=1&
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Mark Carson, shot in the face earlier this year about a block from the Stonewall Inn.
Smarmie Doofus
Aug 2013
#4
To the thousands (more?) of GLBT sent to the gas chambers in Nazi Germany.
Behind the Aegis
Aug 2013
#8
I'm one of those. I've been partially disabled since a hate crime almost 4 years ago
nightscanner59
Nov 2013
#19
Larry King, age 15 shot to death in school in Oxnard California, Feb 2008
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2014
#27
Gift Makau, raped and strangled in a case of "corrective rape", South Africa
theHandpuppet
Aug 2014
#35