On 12 February 2011, the Peruvian police beat a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people who were kissing in the capital’s main square to protest against discrimination.
A year later, Lima’s gay movement is renaming the anniversary as Peru’s Stonewall, in reference to the riots in New York in 1969 which gave rise to the global gay rights movement.
But much remains to be done for LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual] people in Peru. For more than seven years, Crissthian Olivera has been trying to get justice for what he says was discrimination because of his sexual orientation.
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Debate over civil unions for gays has divided Peru’s socially conservative electorate ahead of next month’s presidential vote, drawing particularly fierce opposition from the Catholic church.
