When They Find Out You’re a Lesbian They Refuse to Help”

Kristin Palitza interviews lesbian rights activist FUNEKA SOLDAA

To raise awareness about gay rights, especially in South Africa’s townships, Funeka Soldaat founded advocacy organisation FreeGender. Credit:Kristin Palitza/IPS

CAPE TOWN , Jun 16, 2011 (IPS) – With homophobia on the rise, large numbers of South African lesbians are being subjected to discrimination and violent assaults. There has also been an increase in “corrective rape” by men trying to “cure” them of their sexual orientation. More than 30 lesbians have been killed since 2006. But most of these crimes go unrecognised by the state and unpunished by the legal system….

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