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==Country==
 
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==Description==
 
==Description==
  
Former professional soccer player who played for the national team, and LGBT rights activist.  Murdered for being lesbian.
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Former professional soccer player who played for the national team, and LGBT rights activist.  Murdered for being lesbian in a case of 'corrective rape', whereby a group of men savagely rape a lesbian in an effort to 'correct' her sexual orientation.
  
 
==Further Reading/Research==
 
==Further Reading/Research==

Revision as of 01:15, 21 February 2015

Eudy Simelane

Country

South Africa

Birth - Death

1977 - 2008

Occupation

Sports

Description

Former professional soccer player who played for the national team, and LGBT rights activist. Murdered for being lesbian in a case of 'corrective rape', whereby a group of men savagely rape a lesbian in an effort to 'correct' her sexual orientation.

Further Reading/Research


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