“The police threw us to the ground and kept saying, ‘Kid, kid, stay calm,’” said Amanda, one of the lesbians beaten and illegally detained by the police. Some were taken to the 1st Police Station, others to the 4th Precinct station, at Zabaleta and Chutro. All were released this morning.
“In all the articles that came out, they are lumped together with women, as if misogyny and lesbophobia were synonymous. As if being a lesbian didn't matter, as if the very lesbian words and expressions of our comrades weren't important,” says lawyer Luciana Sánchez, one of the defenders of…
Trans and gender-diverse rights organizations are denouncing police abuses in La Plata. Legal complaints have been filed regarding two raids in February and for an investigation into the death of Pamela Macedo Pandu, who was detained in a prison in Florencio Varela.
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.
In 2008, three police officers raped, beat, and illegally detained Luis Alberto Rojas Marín simply for being gay. After his case was dismissed by the judiciary in 2009, he appealed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). He had his hearing there this month. This is the first time the institution has accepted a case of torture against a person…
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