1978 Lima trans protest

Protest in Peru 1978 Lima trans protest Palacio Legislativo of Peru.jpg The Peruvian Legislative Palace, where the protest took place 1978 12 05 Legislative Palace, Lima, Peru -12.0253 -77.0131 inline,title Protest Protestors meet with legislator Lauro Muñoz The 1978 Lima trans protest took place on 5 December 1978 at the Legislative Palace in Lima, Peru, the location of the Congress of the Republic, becoming the first LGBTQ+ demonstration in Peru and which demanded from the Constituent Assembly various forms of LGBTQ rights.Cardona Acuña Luz Ángela Sotavento y Barlovento: el impacto de las interacciones societales y socio-estatales sobre los cambios legales relativos a la diversidad sexual en Perú y Ecuador (1980-2018) http://flacso.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1026/261 flacso.repositorioinstitucional.mx es PDFRosas De La Cruz Augusto 2020-06-30 Más allá de Stonewall: hacia una genealogía de la diversidad sexual y genérica en la historia del Perú https://idehpucp.pucp.edu.pe/notas-informativas/mas-alla-de-stonewall-hacia-una-genealogia-de-la-diversidad-sexual-y-generica-en-la-historia-del-peru/ 2021-05-06 IDEHPUCP esMorales Katherine 2021-07-28 Bicentenario del Perú: los hitos protagonizados por la comunidad LGTBIQ+ a través de la historia https://larepublica.pe/sociedad/2021/07/28/bicentenario-del-peru-los-hitos-protagonizados-por-la-comunidad-lgtbiq-a-traves-de-la-historia-atmp/ 2022-04-20 larepublica.pe es History The protest was led by three transgender people; the artists Francis Day, Damonett and Giselle. At the time, they were performing a show at the "Palais Concert" cafe-theater on Manuel Bonilla Street in the Miraflores district, titled "Travestis en la Prostituyente," which consisted of a satire regarding the development of the Constituent Assembly of Peru that at that time was drafting the new Constitution."Escuelas en lucha" (La toma de la ENBA) https://books.openedition.org/ifea/8106 2023-06-07 esMori Bolo Giancarlo 2021-07-09 "Con ustedes, la Prostituyente": Una reflexión alrededor de las transexuales en la Asamblea Constituyente (1978) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df9fkKE8_P0 YouTube Congreso Nacional de Historia Bicentenario es The protest took place on 5 December 1978, in front of the Legislative Palace, and was held to demand respect and protection for people of the "third sex" (as the LGBTQ+ community was known at the time), as well as an end to police abuse against them. They managed to meet with legislator Lauro Muñoz Garay of the Christian People's Party (PPC), to whom they delivered a memorandum addressed to the Special Commission on Human Rights of the Constituent Assembly, which, among other things, requested legislation that "no one, under any circumstances, due to their sexual behavior, may be subjected to torture or inhuman, humiliating, or discriminatory treatment or punishment."Chipana Juan 2019-11-19 Elecciones 2020: Gahela Tseneg busca ser la primera mujer trans elegida para el Congreso https://caretas.pe/politica/canditata-trans-gahela-tseneg/ 2023-06-07 Caretas 2023-06-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20230621073025/https://caretas.pe/politica/canditata-trans-gahela-tseneg/ dead However, their demands were not included in the final draft of the Constitution.Álvarez Rolando “Estampas Limeñas”. Recuperación de la memoria sobre la disidencia sexual en doscientos años de República. Del imaginario social a la imaginación radical https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=8628293 2023-06-07 Various news outlets reported on the protest: Issue 44 of the magazine Oiga included a cover photograph of Francis Day during his meeting with Lauro Muñoz with the headline El tercer sexo en el primer poder, while the newspaper Expreso headlined "Travestis fueron a la Asamblea", also accompanied by a photograph of the protestors. See also LGBTQ rights in Peru Article 272 of the Penal Code of Peru References Category:1978 in LGBTQ history Category:1978 in Peru Category:1978 protests Category:LGBTQ civil rights demonstrations Category:LGBTQ history in Peru Category:Protests in Peru Category:Transgender history by country Category:Travestis