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Title: Repressed fear in a transgendered world
Post by: Shana A on March 17, 2011, 10:25:50 AM
Post by: Shana A on March 17, 2011, 10:25:50 AM
Repressed fear in a transgendered world
Mar 16, 2011 17:34 EDT
Edgard Garrido
http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2011/03/16/repressed-fear-in-a-transgendered-world/ (http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2011/03/16/repressed-fear-in-a-transgendered-world/)
"Even Obama cares about us! The last time a gay leader was assassinated in Uganda, Obama asked [President] Pepe [Lobo] to protect us and investigate the crimes against us in Honduras," says Bessy, a 31 year-old transsexual who does volunteer social work with the homosexual community during the day. For the last 11 years, Bessy has also been working nights as a prostitute on the streets.
Honduran government sources have documented the assassination of 34 gays, ->-bleeped-<-s, and transsexuals in the past 18 months. Some of them were killed with great sadism and cruelty. Three days before Christmas, murderers tied Lady Oscar to a chair and set fire to her. A week earlier the body of Luis Hernandez was found in a ditch, her face beaten until it was unrecognizable.
I meet them in the basement of a pool hall located in a dangerous neighborhood of Tegucigalpa. There, along narrow and dark stairways, are several rooms where Bessy, Patricia and Tiffany live.
Mar 16, 2011 17:34 EDT
Edgard Garrido
http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2011/03/16/repressed-fear-in-a-transgendered-world/ (http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2011/03/16/repressed-fear-in-a-transgendered-world/)
"Even Obama cares about us! The last time a gay leader was assassinated in Uganda, Obama asked [President] Pepe [Lobo] to protect us and investigate the crimes against us in Honduras," says Bessy, a 31 year-old transsexual who does volunteer social work with the homosexual community during the day. For the last 11 years, Bessy has also been working nights as a prostitute on the streets.
Honduran government sources have documented the assassination of 34 gays, ->-bleeped-<-s, and transsexuals in the past 18 months. Some of them were killed with great sadism and cruelty. Three days before Christmas, murderers tied Lady Oscar to a chair and set fire to her. A week earlier the body of Luis Hernandez was found in a ditch, her face beaten until it was unrecognizable.
I meet them in the basement of a pool hall located in a dangerous neighborhood of Tegucigalpa. There, along narrow and dark stairways, are several rooms where Bessy, Patricia and Tiffany live.