Inter Press Service: LGBT Visibility in Africa Also Brings Backlash
“…In the past 10 years in South Africa, 31 lesbians have been reported killed as the result of [so-called] corrective rape, [Shehnilla Mohamed, Africa director for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGHLRC),] said. … Transgender, gay or effeminate men are also the subject of corrective rape, but they are less likely to be murdered and are less likely to report it. If this is happening in South Africa, the only mainland African country to allow legal same-sex marriage, what is it like to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) elsewhere on the continent?…” (Jaeger, 9/9).