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COMMENTARY: South Africa’s “corrective rape” of lesbians

To hear of human rights abuses of Uganda’s LGBTQ population is not new, sadly. Gay activist David Kato was the father of the Uganda’s LGBTQ rights movement. To many of his fellow countrymen Kato was a dead man walking once his homosexuality became public.

The country’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill dubbed “Kill The Gays" bill criminalizes same-sex relations. And depending on which category your homosexual behavior is classified as — "aggravated homosexual” or “the offense of homosexuality” — you’ll either received the death penalty or if you’re lucky life imprisonment.

Homophobia in Africa: Breaking the silence on corrective rape, LGBT violence

“Break the Silence – Say No to Homophobia” is the call of South African LGBT activists and friends and family of the silenced victims of violence against sexual minorities. South Africa is country of contradictions, yet great promise and it started with the awesome “post-apartheid -never again oppression-esque” Constitution.

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South Africa creates historic task force to fight corrective rape, create LGBT hate crimes laws

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- In March I attended the first meeting at the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJCD) in South Africa, as a spokesperson with Ndumie Funda of Luleki Sizwe, and we outlined the need for reforms and hate crimes legislation, especially against corrective rape of lesbians in South Africa.

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