Gay gangrape
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Silent protest against homophobic attack
Note to Editors: This extract is based on a speech delivered by Andrew Louw in Kimberley this morning.
Good morning and thank you to everyone for coming at such short notice to this very vital gathering.
A special synonyms of welcome to Tebogo Makwati, our representative from the Diamond Gay and Lesbian Organisation, as well as to Shaine Griqua, the representative from the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Organisation.
We are sad and disturbed to be standing here today.
Our Monday morning was soured by the shocking news that a gay man from Schmidtsdrift had been brutally gang raped and set alight in a homophobic attack in Lerato Park over the weekend (see DFA report).
It is ironic that this brutal attack follows on after the DA held an anti-violence march in the Kimberley CBD on Saturday.
At our parade, we spoke out against violence.
We highlighted just how sick society had turn into. We spoke about the horrific rapes of the 6-week old baby, as well as the rape and murder of the 87-year old grandmother in Galeshewe last year.
We are despondent to see that hostility is still escalating.
It is UNIMAGIBAL
Texas Officials Complicit in Gang Rape and Sexual Slavery of Same-sex attracted Black Man, ACLU Charges
Roderick Johnson, a Navy veteran serving day for a non-violent crime, has been bought and sold by gangs, raped, abused, and degraded nearly every day.
In a legal complaint that reads like a nightmare scenario from the graphic HBO prison drama ""Oz,"" the ACLU detailed the story of 33-year-old Navy veteran Roderick Johnson of Marshall, Texas, who for the last 18 months has been bought and sold by gangs, raped, abused, and degraded nearly every day.
""Prison officials knew that gangs made Roderick Johnson their sex slave and did nothing to help him,"" said Margaret Winter, Associate Director of the ACLU's National Prison Project. ""Our lawsuit shows that Texas prison officials think jet men can't be victims and believe gay men always wish sex -- so they threw our client to the wolves.""
According to the ACLU complaint, Johnson appeared before the prison's all-white classification committee seven separate times asking to be placed in safe keeping from predatory prisoners. Instead of protecting Johnson, the ACLU complaint charges, the committee members taunted him and called him a ""d
Four arrested in gang rape of gay woman
Two men and two teens hold been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a chick last month in the San Francisco Bay area while allegedly taunting her for being a womxn loving womxn, police said Thursday.
Officers arrested Humberto Hernandez Salvador at his Richmond home Wednesday night, Richmond police Lt. Mark Gagan said. The 31-year-old is being held without bail on gang rape, kidnapping and carjacking charges.
Police on Wednesday also arrested a 15-year-old Richmond boy and a 16-year-old Hercules boy, who were being held at a juvenile detention center on similar charges. Their names were not released.
Josue Gonzalez, 21, turned himself in Thursday after police announced they were searching for him. He was wanted on a $1 million arrest warrant on charges of gang rape, kidnapping and carjacking.
Gagan said Gonzalez asked for an attorney when he turned himself in but said nothing about his alleged role in the attack.
Police would not detail each person’s alleged involvement in the attack but said tips from local residents led to the arrests.
Detectives speak the 28-year-old victim was attacked on Dec. 13 after she got out of her car, which bore a r
AnthonyAderogranted me the privilege and the honor of discussing with him his redemptive experience following the trauma of creature gang raped. We delved into his "afterlife," his journey through fear, denial and social resistance, and the overwhelming difficulty of evidence the expressive language to capture an awful occurrence that grew into a blessing as he reclaimed his body before the planet.
Nick Mwaluko: Obeying the rape, you were in recovery, physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. During that entire stretch of time, you were not sexually active.
Anthony Adero: Absolutely not.
Mwaluko: How did you find out that you had HIV?
Adero: I felt my body was not my body.
Mwaluko: Yours was a nonconforming body, wouldn't you say?
Adero: Yes and no. I left Nairobi's municipality center for my home village because I did not want to approach near or finalize to another stranger. I needed solitude, peace, space, familiarity, which I falsely associated with guard. I was deeply depressed, very sickly. I could not get out of bed. My youngest aunt suggested, with the utmost kindness, that I earn medical attention. My first test was negative, but I knew m