[4][3] In 2002, after spending time working with GALZ, an LGBT organisation in Zimbabwe, Eddy established the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association (SLLGA), the first of its kind in the country.

[5] While the LGBT scene in Sierra Leone was described as "underground" due to widespread persecution, Eddy was noted as a visible, openly gay public figure who lobbied government ministers to address the rights and needs of LGBT people in what she called her "beloved Sierra Leone".

[4] On 29 September 2004, a group of at least three men broke into the SLLGA's office in Freetown, where Eddy was raped and stabbed, with her neck eventually being broken.

[5] Following her death, Human Rights Watch described Eddy as "a person of extraordinary bravery and integrity", and called on the Sierra Leonean government to investigate her murder "fairly and fully".

[11] In 2005, the book Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives: Female Same-Sex Practice in Africa, by Ruth Morgan and Saskia Wieringa, was dedicated to Eddy.