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theHandpuppet

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29. Remembering our brothers and sisters in South Africa
Tue May 20, 2014, 01:02 PM
May 2014
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 uncle’s 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 didn’t 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&
A thread for GLBT martyrs [View all] theHandpuppet Aug 2013 OP
Matthew Shepard, Wyoming, 1998... hlthe2b Aug 2013 #1
Dwayne Jones, transgender teen stabbed, shot and run over by Jamaican mob Glorfindel Aug 2013 #2
Sadly this thread will get very big. William769 Aug 2013 #3
Mark Carson, shot in the face earlier this year about a block from the Stonewall Inn. Smarmie Doofus Aug 2013 #4
Gay man killed in Russia's second suspected hate crime in weeks William769 Aug 2013 #5
Brandy Martell, murdered in Oakland, CA 2012. nt Zorra Aug 2013 #6
Myles “Lashay” Mclean, a 23-year-old transgender woman, Washington, D.C. theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #7
To the thousands (more?) of GLBT sent to the gas chambers in Nazi Germany. Behind the Aegis Aug 2013 #8
... William769 Aug 2013 #9
Beautiful. theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #11
+1 Zorra Aug 2013 #12
So many gone.... theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #10
My Friend Karen, 1991, Nashville Sissyk Aug 2013 #13
80 men murdered in Sydney during the rampage of gay-hate gangs theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #14
TDOR - updated every year sgsmith Aug 2013 #15
Daniel Zamudio, Santiago, Chile theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #16
to all those mentioned mitchtv Oct 2013 #17
I'm one of those. I've been partially disabled since a hate crime almost 4 years ago nightscanner59 Nov 2013 #19
I had a friend that was nearly beaten to death Aerows Jan 2014 #22
I contributed to it Aerows Feb 2014 #26
This message was self-deleted by its author theHandpuppet Oct 2013 #18
Alan Turing Anthea Carson Dec 2013 #20
Isa Shakhmarli, Azeri Gay Rights Activist theHandpuppet Jan 2014 #21
The world is plenty colorful for all LGBTers. Fearless Feb 2014 #23
Seventeen-year-old Rosin Çiçek of Turkey theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #24
This thread is beautiful and horrible at the same time Aerows Feb 2014 #25
Larry King, age 15 shot to death in school in Oxnard California, Feb 2008 Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #27
Chilean man dies after alleged anti-gay attack theHandpuppet Apr 2014 #28
Remembering our brothers and sisters in South Africa theHandpuppet May 2014 #29
Thank you, theHandpuppet, for this topic. WilliamTuckness Jun 2014 #30
Yaz’min Shancez, of Fort Myers, Florida theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #31
Mollie Olgin and Mary Kristene Chapa, teenage lesbian couple, Texas theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #32
Arron Leahey, 24, Texas theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #33
Abdulla Ghavami Chahzanjiru and Salman Ghanbari Chahzanjiri, Iran theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #34
Gift Makau, raped and strangled in a case of "corrective rape", South Africa theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #35
Bryan "Feather" Higgins, San Francisco, August 2014 theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #36
I would add Leelah Alcorn to this list. Terra Alta Jan 2015 #37
Jason Gage - Waterloo, Iowa dee_dee_st_martin Mar 2015 #38
Paul Broussard, Houston, TX, 1991 SusanCalvin Jul 2015 #39
Charlie Howard, Bangor Maine, July 7, 1984 72DejaVu Nov 2015 #40
Orlando, Florida Behind the Aegis Jun 2016 #41
Currently only known as "Julie Doe", located in 1988 outside Orlando, Florida. moriah Jun 2016 #42
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2017 #43
Muhlaysia Booker, trans woman of color shenmue May 2019 #44
Michelle Washington, trans woman of color shenmue May 2019 #45
Denali Stuckey, trans woman of color shenmue Jul 2019 #46
3 black women in SC, since April 2018 mercuryblues Aug 2019 #47
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2021 #48
harvey milk. AllaN01Bear Nov 2021 #49
Sheila Lumumba, Kenyan; nonbinary shenmue Apr 2022 #50
Meghan Riley Lewis, trans woman, lived in Maryland; hosted a holiday party for those who live alone; murdered. shenmue Jan 9 #51
Samantha Gomez Fonseca, activist shenmue Jan 18 #52
Nex Benedict, non-binary student shenmue Feb 21 #53
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