Peru

The LGBTQ+ community and its allies protests in front of Peru's health ministry on 17 May against a government decree listing 'transsexualism' as a 'mental disorder'.

Americas
May 20 2024

Protests in Peru after trans people deemed ‘mentally ill’

LIMA, PERU - 2023/02/23: A protester chants slogans while holding a placard outside the criminal investigation department (DININCRI) during the demonstration. Organizations march in Lima and in other regions to demand faster investigations and justice for transphobic attack victims. To date, at least seven trans women in Peru have been murdered. (Photo by Guillermo Gutierrez Carrascal/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Americas
May 15 2024

Peru classifies trans people as ‘mentally ill’ after government decree

A couple kiss as they hold up rainbow LGBTQ+ Pride flags during a march in Peru where advocates call for same-sex marriage laws, for queer people to be protected from discrimination and more

Law
Jul 22 2023

Peru court offers same-sex marriage hope for LGBTQ+ couples

In this photograph, a nurse vaccinates a patient against monkeypox

Health
Aug 27 2022

Monkeypox: Mexico and Peru report rare deaths as global outbreak shows signs of decline

Grindr on an Apple iPhone

World
Dec 21 2020

Grindr reveals which countries have the most tops and the most bottoms

Panama: Trans community alarmed by gendered coronavirus restrictions

World
May 18 2020

Transgender woman groped and taunted by police as queer community ‘damned’ by gender-based lockdown rules

Colombia: Gendered lockdown that sparked anti-trans violence to be lifted

World
May 10 2020

Gender-based lockdown rules that fuelled rise in violence against transgender people to be lifted

Trans
Apr 15 2020

Peru backtracks on controversial gender-based lockdown rules after fierce backlash from trans community

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

World
Apr 07 2020

Peru is ‘responsible’ for rape and torture of trans woman while in custody, top human rights court rules

Panama: Trans community alarmed by gendered coronavirus restrictions

Trans
Apr 06 2020

Transgender people in Panama alarmed by gender-based coronavirus quarantine rules

Peru: LGBT couples symbolically marry to protest ban on equal marriage

World
Feb 18 2020

Queer couples in Peru tie the knot in symbolic Valentine’s Day ceremony to protest ban on equal marriage

Lawyer and activist Susel Paredes.

Current Affairs
Apr 16 2019

A Peruvian city official is fighting to legalise gay marriage

Revellers take part in the Gay Pride Parade in San Jose, on June 25, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Ezequiel BECERRA (Photo credit should read EZEQUIEL BECERRA/AFP/Getty Images)

Current Affairs
Jan 10 2018

An incredible court ruling just ordered 16 countries to make same-sex marriage legal

Illustrated rainbow pride flag on a white background.

Lifestyle
May 16 2017

The Gay Travel Guide to Lima