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Title: Angola: Invisible and vulnerable (blog/comments)
Post by: Natasha on June 23, 2008, 05:53:52 PM
Angola: Invisible and vulnerable

Link (http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/angola-invisible-and-vulnerable/)
6/23/2008

"I've had rocks thrown at me in the street. I used to think I was the only ->-bleeped-<- in Viana [a neighborhood of Luanda]," she told IRIN/PlusNews.
Edna, 21, who was born Edson*, dropped out of school in 8th grade because she suffered so much persecution from her classmates.  Not surprisingly, few individuals in Angola are prepared to risk being open about their homosexuality."
Title: Re: Angola: Invisible and vulnerable (blog/comments)
Post by: tekla on June 23, 2008, 05:59:55 PM
I never thought that many people in Angola were free to do much of anything.