Eudy Simelane was a South African football star, famous for being an amazing football player but also famous for being an openly gay woman in South Africa.

Tragically, women being attracted to other women is more than some men can handle and these men take it upon themselves to "fix" gay women/men/trans people using "corrective rape".

Eudy Simelane was a victim of corrective gang rape and she didn't survive her attack, like many others targeted both in South Africa and around the world.

Corrective rape is a despicable crime that currently is not classed as a hate crime in South Africa but there is a petition to change this -

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/stop_corrective_rape/?copy

Sources -

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/world/africa/23safrica.html

https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/eudy-simelane

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55950480

http://www.causeofdeathwoman.com/eudy-simelane

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/south-african-lesbians-live-in-fear-of-corrective-rape-1779261.html

http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/07/26/opinion/26corrective-rape.html

https://outrightinternational.org/content/call-action-against-brutal-rape-and-murder-south-african-lesbian-noxolo-nogwaza

https://rapecrisis.org.uk/get-informed/about-sexual-violence/statistics-sexual-violence/

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