A vote of ten to six in Congress recommended eliminating Decree 1323, which established criminal penalties for hate crimes and discrimination against LGBTI people. Those who voted for this measure, which the Ombudsman's Office considers a step backward in the effort to prevent and combat homophobic and transphobic violence in society, are among those who voted against it.
“If you see two lesbians having sex, kill them,” said the leader of the World Missionary Movement. The Peruvian Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating him for incitement to violence and discrimination against the LGBTI population. This is one of the many forms of violence that lesbian women face in the country. Solange Saldaña recounts her story in this video.
Three communicators from Peru launched an audiovisual project: a documentary web series that tells the stories of LGBT people. Thanks to a crowdfunding campaign, they already have five episodes and several more are on the way. The episodes can be viewed for free on YouTube.
“There isn’t one type of woman, and not all women are the same,” says communicator and activist Pilar Rojas. Along with Alexandra Hernández Muro and trans activist Javiera Alejandra Arnillas, she shares her experiences, challenges feminism, calls for a march, and states what they demand from the State on International Women’s Day.
Between melodrama and pop, Daniel Tolentino created a fashion collection as a way to exorcise his experience and show that there are many ways to cope with the virus. “Me Muero” (I'm Dying), presented in seven episodes, is inspired by beautiful and unstable divas, like life itself. Journalist Esteban Marchand went to find out what was behind this talented and troubled millennial and wrote this profile.
In the same week that the equal marriage bill was introduced, the first public hearing to advocate for and debate the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people was held yesterday. Congresswoman Indira Huilca, a feminist from the Broad Front and a leading advocate for the LGBTQ+ rights agenda, opened this historic afternoon, which included several discussion panels. "We want to bring the LGBTQ+ agenda to the Bicentennial," she said.
It proposes the modification of article 234 of the Civil Code, which currently establishes the concept of marriage as "the union voluntarily agreed upon by a man and a woman legally capable of doing so."
On Saturday afternoon, the streets of Lima saw LGBTQ+ people walking arm in arm, kissing and embracing to say: never again to homophobia. Every year they gather and march to the Plaza Mayor despite police interference. Presentes was there.
On Saturday, February 11, as every year, self-organized members of the LGBTIQ community will gather in San Martín Square in Lima to say enough to homo-lesbo-transphobia.
The investigation, carried out by the collective "I'm not afraid", includes testimonies from the interior of the country and covers various aspects, from violence to education.
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