Well, in this increasingly strange world that is possible in Peru, so says the most recent report on LGBT rights in this country.
With testimony like “I am going to send you to rape so that you become a little woman” Y «My older sister for many years beat me and insulted me daily, just because I was a lesbian.» “She insulted me when she came to visit my parents, she told me: ‘fag’, ‘why don’t you die’, ‘you’re disgusting’”appear in the report State of violence: diagnosis of the situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people in metropolitan Limacarried out by the collective No Tengo Miedo in 2014.
In the social imaginary, this type of rape is ‘corrective’ Considering that penetration is the ideal way to define a relationship between a man and a woman, documents the study, published by the Center for the Promotion and Defense of Sexual and Reproductive Rights (Promsex).
The corrective violation has the «intention» to change the sexual orientation of the victim. It usually comes from the closest social environment – friends or family-and look for these women “test a real man”.
In Peru of every 10 lesbian women, 4.3 have suffered family violence. The home is one of the most common spaces of violence in the population LGBT. Compulsory heterosexuality and verbal aggression are the most frequent devices of violence in this population. Families exercise emotional and financial control over their victims and view homosexuality as a disease that they believe they can cure.
Peru lacks a national policy against discrimination based on sexual orientation, has not criminalized hate crimes against the LGTB population, so far protocols are being developed to deal with cases of violence and there is an effort by government entities and social organizations to document and systematize the experiences of this population.
Discrimination based on sexual orientation in Peru is such that, in some clinics or health centers in the country, homosexual people are prevented from donating blood because of their sexual orientation. This is the case of a woman who was unable to donate blood to her 8-year-old nephew with leukemia because she was a lesbian.
As we can see, many times discrimination comes directly from the family itself and in that order of ideas we want to know if you have ever felt discrimination from your own family, tell us here.
With information from Pulse