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South Africa: Lesbian Woman “Stoned to Death” After Lesbophobic Threats

South Africa: Lesbian Woman “Stoned to Death” After Lesbophobic Threats

It’s been reported that a 24-year-old lesbian mom from Zimbabwe was brutally murdered in Gauteng. In a statement, FEW (Forum for the Empowerment of Women) said it first heard of the news of Ruth “Nickki” Chigowe’s death on 27 May. Her unidentified lifeless body was discovered “stoned to death” in Maphanga section, Katlehong, a large township southeast of Johannesburg. It was only on 31 May that…

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South Africa: Lesbian Stabbed to Death for Rejecting Man’s Advances

South Africa: Lesbian Stabbed to Death for Rejecting Man’s Advances

Lesbian Pinky Shongwe, 32, from Umlazi [South Africa] was stabbed to death by a man who was making romantic advances which she rejected. Shongwe’s body was discovered this week. Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nqobile Gwala said a case of murder was opened by Umlazi police for investigation after a 32-year-old female was allegedly stabbed. She said the victim left home to go to a local…

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Argentina: Lesbian Higui acquitted after brutal attack and attempted corrective rape

Argentina: Lesbian Higui acquitted after brutal attack and attempted corrective rape

Higui speaks after being acquitted of manslaughter, having defended herself during a brutal and traumatic attack and attempted corrective rape. On October 16, 2016, Argentinian woman Eva Analía De Jesús, better known as Higui, was walking through the Buenos Aires town of Bella Vista when a group of men attacked her because of her sexual orientation. Higui — who was given that nickname because…

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Grave fears for lesbian basketballer Brittney Griner detained in Russia

Grave fears for lesbian basketballer Brittney Griner detained in Russia

Experts and politicians have grave fears for the safety of American lesbian basketballer Brittney Griner, after her arrest in Russia a month ago. Custom officials arrested the American WNBA star at an airport near Moscow on or around February 17, according to the US government. Russian authorities accused the two-time Olympic gold medalist of having a vape cartridge containing cannabis oil in…

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U.S: Lesbian slurs used by Grant County staff to describe job applicant

U.S: Lesbian slurs used by Grant County staff to describe job applicant

A Mount Vernon woman is suing Grant County and its director of community corrections, claiming she was called a “bad lesbian,” among other derogatory terms, by staff members while under consideration for a job in 2013 and was eventually passed over because of her sexual orientation. Terry Hanson, 54, contends county staff discriminated against her and violated her civil rights. In the suit filed…

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U.K: Lesbian couple forced to move home after being hounded by neighbour

U.K: Lesbian couple forced to move home after being hounded by neighbour

A lesbian couple were forced to quit their home after they were hounded by a neighbour who spotted them kissing through their living room window, a court heard Nurse Faye Mallon and counsellor Lydia Henshall were subjected to foul mouthed homophobic abuse by former gym owner Kim Armstrong who called them ‘naughty disrespectful girls.’ During a hate campaign father-of-two Armstrong would…

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Australia: Lesbian forced out of army will address Royal Commission

Australia: Lesbian forced out of army will address Royal Commission

Decorated army veteran Yvonne Sillett will appear at the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide on Monday. Yvonne was driven out of the Australian Army over her sexuality three years before the government changed policy and allowed gays and lesbians to serve. Yvonne says on the Discharged LGBTI Veterans’ Association website (DLVA) that she joined the Army at 18. After then qualifying…

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U.S: Tesla Sued by Lesbian for Racism and Homophobia

U.S: Tesla Sued by Lesbian for Racism and Homophobia

A Black gay woman who worked at a Tesla Inc. factory accused the electric-vehicle maker in a lawsuit of “festering” racism by ignoring the racial and homophobic slurs and physical harm she endured. Kaylen Barker, a former contract worker who inspected brake parts, is the latest to complain that Tesla ignores discrimination based on race, sexual orientation and gender at its plants. According to…

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Brazil: young lesbian attacked in nightclub

Brazil: young lesbian attacked in nightclub

A 20-year-old lesbian student was a victim of homophobia inside a nightclub in São Bernardo do Campo (SP) in the early hours of Sunday (30 January). First she was verbally abused and then she was the victim of physical violence. Gabriela Oliveira Guimarães was at the place called Blow Rudge accompanied by three cousins ​​when she was verbally attacked by other regulars, who called her “dyke” and…

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Italy: lesbian couple threatened

Italy: lesbian couple threatened

14 January 2022 Outraged because two young girls publicly were affectionate on the bus, a seventy-year-old threatened them with a knife and repeatedly insulted them by shouting “ugly lesbians, either stop it or I’ll put a knife in your belly”. The serious instance of homophobia occured the other evening on the Amt bus number 13 from Corso Saffi to the terminus of via Turati, in Caricamento. At…

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Mexico: Lesbian couple found murdered

Mexico: Lesbian couple found murdered

Nohemí Medina Martínez and Yulizsa Ramírez were found roughly 17 miles apart from each other on a stretch of Juárez-El Porvenir Road. The women, who were both 28-years-old and of El Paso, Texas, were discovered on 16 January the day after seeing family whom they had travelled to visit in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, El Diario reported. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Chihuahua Committee for Sexual…

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U.S: Lesbian National Guard member sues for discrimination

U.S: Lesbian National Guard member sues for discrimination

Fairness West Virginia reported that Technical Sergeant Kristin Kingery has filed a lawsuit alleging ongoing discrimination based on her sexual orientation and gender expression in the Air National Guard. According to the complaint filed, Kingery was allegedly told by supervisors that her career would “suffer” unless she began wearing makeup and growing her hair long. Documents say that the…

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Lesbian pop star Denise Ho arrested amid growing crackdown against China’s critics

Lesbian pop star Denise Ho arrested amid growing crackdown against China’s critics

Lesbian pop star and regionally famous pro-democracy activist Denise Ho was one of seven people arrested on Wednesday morning by national security police in Hong Kong. She was released on Thursday afternoon. All seven arrestees were linked to the pro-democracy news website Stand News and were accused of “conspiracy to publish seditious material,” a colonial-era crime punishable by two years in…

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Lesbian flees Afghanistan to escape forced marriage to Taliban member

Lesbian flees Afghanistan to escape forced marriage to Taliban member

Image copyright of Lonely planet Rabia was just 15-years-old when she became engaged to a Taliban officer against her will in a small village in Afghanistan. Now 22-years-old, Rabia has fled Afghanistan and has managed to get away from the man who made her adolescence hell. She is temporarily living in Pakistan, but she’s hopeful she will ultimately be able to claim asylum in either Canada or…

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Iran: Lesbian Activist Arrested in Iran, Faces Death Penalty

Iran: Lesbian Activist Arrested in Iran, Faces Death Penalty

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have arrested lesbian activist Sareh in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. Twenty-eight-year-old Sareh, was detained for 21 days by the Iraqi Kurdistan police after her interview with BBC Persian about the situation of  the LGBTQI community in Iraqi Kurdistan. After release, she made an attempt to cross the Iranian border to seek asylum in…

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Feminist Author and Educator bell hooks Dies Age 69

Feminist Author and Educator bell hooks Dies Age 69

By Claire Heuchan AfterEllen Gloria Jean Watkins, known internationally as bell hooks, died on December 15th 2021. After a prolonged illness she passed at home, surrounded by friends and family. hooks was born in 1952. She grew up in Hopkinsville, Kentucky – which was segregated at the time of her birth. And these early experiences of anti-Blackness went on to fuel a lifelong commitment to…

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Cameroon: Leaked sex tape puts lesbian soccer star at risk

Cameroon: Leaked sex tape puts lesbian soccer star at risk

Sexually explicit lesbian videos showing a former star of the national women’s soccer team and her partner spread widely in Cameroon last week. In response, social media sites were ablaze with people claiming to be outraged. Online and off, discrimination and insults against LGBTI people in Cameroon intensified, and police made arbitrary arrests of several gay and trans Cameroonians. The videos…