The Chosen FEW
The 20 members of The Chosen FEW South African Women’s Soccer team range in age from 14 to 34 and hail from townships around Johannesburg. They are also all lesbians. The team is part of the larger Lesbian Feminist Leadership Program, and was founded to offer lesbians respite from the strain of unemployment and lack of educational opportunities. In addition to their athletic endeavors, “The Chosen FEW Soccer Team members are activists and human rights defenders,” says coach Leigh-Ann Naidoo. “They do this in so many ways, the most glaring of which is being brave enough to be out lesbian women in South African townships, where we have had three out lesbians raped and killed in the last year.” The FEW speak publicly, run camps and workshops, and provide a voice for the South African lesbians of color. –MF
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