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Peruvian Judiciary recognizes co-maternity after 5 years of struggle by Jenny and Darling

PERU By Agencia Presentes October 18, 2021

Jenny Trujillo Cueva and Darling Delfín Ponce began the fight in 2016 to have the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (Reniec) recognize co-maternity on their son's ID card.

Peru's National Board of Justice is investigating a Supreme Court judge for LGBTphobia.

PERU By Agencia Presentes October 15, 2021

Supreme Court Justice Javier Arévalo Vela called homosexuality an “abnormality” and a “psychological problem” in a public statement.

For the first time, a Peruvian trans woman changed her ID card without surgery.

PERU By Agencia Presentes September 29, 2021

On Tuesday the 28th, Dania Elizabeth Calderón García became the first trans woman to obtain a favorable ruling to rectify her data—name and sex—on her National Identity Document (DNI), without having to undergo genital reassignment surgery.

A trans woman was murdered in El Callao: the police ignored previous reports.

PERU By Agencia Presentes September 25, 2021

Gina Rodríguez, a 28-year-old trans woman, was stabbed to death on Tuesday the 21st in El Callao. The suspect is a man who regularly solicited services from trans sex workers.

Almost a century later, Peru's first lesbian novel resurfaces

PERU By Agencia Presentes 23 September, 2021

"Confessions of Dorish Dam", by Delia Colmenares, was published in 1929 and has an explicit lesbian theme in a modernist style.

A lesbian-feminist library in Lima is a refuge for children and LGBT+ people.

PERU By Agencia Presentes 6 September, 2021

Since March 2020, a children's library has been operating in the Historic Center of Lima: an area of ​​sex work, drug micro-trafficking, clandestine bars, a public urinal and a boxing ring.

For the first time, a case of discrimination against a gay couple in Peru reaches the IACHR.

PERU By Agencia Presentes July 13, 2021

After 17 years, the discriminatory violence suffered by Crissthian Olivera at the hands of the Peruvian State reached the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Trans activist and former candidate Gahela Cari was attacked in Lima while the Serenazgo (municipal security force) did nothing.

PERU By Agencia Presentes July 12, 2021

The Ombudsman's Office also issued a statement rejecting the "acts of transphobic violence committed against Gahela, which were allegedly witnessed by Serenazgo personnel from Cercado de Lima."

What can Peruvian LGBT+ feminism and activism expect from Pedro Castillo?

PERU By Agencia Presentes June 8, 2021

Neither ally nor enemy. Five years of struggle lie ahead for the LGBTI movement, which has already called for an in-person march this Saturday, June 26, under the slogan "Our Pride is not in quarantine."

Lesbian Visibility Day: The struggles of being a public lesbian

MEXICO , PERU , Uncategorized By Agencia Presentes April 26, 2021

Like any commemorative date, this one prompts us to reflect on the place that lesbians and their political struggles have occupied in the public sphere. What purpose does visibility serve in the current context? What dilemmas does it present us with?

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