Before we begin today's episode, I want to warn you that from the start, we'll be discussing

sexual violence and rape.

Viewer discretion is advised.

Hello and welcome back to Outlaw Podcast.

I'm Eleanor Neal, and in today's episode, we're in South Africa in 2008, where the body

of a women's footballing hero was discovered beaten, bloody and partially clothed.

Her name was Yudy Similani. She was 31 years old when she was murdered and her body dumped in a shallow ditch.

When the news broke, you would expect there to be outrage and there was but not as much as you would

think because devastatingly this kind of thing had come to be expected Udi was a lesbian

living in the South African townships and in the townships no lesbian is safe

from the violent phenomenon that is corrective rape.

Have you ever heard a man say, one night with me and I'll turn you straight?

Lesbians are sick of hearing stuff like this.

I mean, recently we've seen that exact thing happen on national

television on Celebrity Big Brother UK, when Mickey Rourke told Jojo Siwa, if I stay longer than

four days, you won't be gay anymore. I'll tie you up. The men that talk like this think

that it's just like a funny throwaway line, that it's unsurious, that it's just a joke.

But for many lesbian women, this is a real threat that they are faced with every day.

Men forcing themselves on them. And there's actually a name for this. It's called corrective rape.

It's a threat and far too often it's actually carried out.

The intent behind corrective rape is to either punish or quote unquote cure gay people of their sexuality.

And in South Africa, for black lesbians living in the townships, it's estimated that 10 cases of corrective rape are taking place

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