Tag: shot

Safe in America: LGBTQI+ Asylum Seeker Shot in Chicago Gun Violence

April 12, 2023

By Melanie Nathan, April 12, 2023. Jaime* is a young woman who identifies as a lesbian. She fled her African country desperate to escape the criminalization and the violence she was experiencing, almost daily, at the hands of known community and police authorities. There was nowhere to receive government help or justice, because she, the … More Safe in America: LGBTQI+ Asylum Seeker Shot in Chicago Gun Violence

South African Lesbian Shot Dead in Front of Family

June 25, 2012

Signals rise of rampant violence against lesbians  in South African Townships Melanie Nathan, June 25, 2012. Phumeza Nkolonzi, a young lesbian from Nyanga Township was brutally murdered last night in front of her family and activists are asserting the motive was hate. The murder occurred at her family home  in Mau Mau, Nyanga, a  township … More South African Lesbian Shot Dead in Front of Family