Supermodel Aweng Ade-Chuol kisses wife on cover of Elle UK in defiance of homophobic abuse
Trigger warning: This article contains reference to suicide.Same-sex marriage has been constitutionally banned in South Sudan since 2011, and Aweng faced severe backlash from her community after her wedding in New York last December.‘We got married and the whole world, literally the whole of my community, were wishing that I passed, in a way… A few months later, I attempt [suicide],’ she told the magazine.‘It was really absurd, because subconsciously I felt I was maybe drained by the fact we’d got married.
It’s still a discussion now, like, “How dare she marry a woman?” You can’t control what people say, and there were tabloids and newspapers back in Sudan… It was a whole thing.’Aweng shared the mental impact of her ordeal at the time in an.
