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About Trujillo
Trujillo, Peru's third-largest city, holds its own Marcha del Orgullo. It takes place at the end of June, on the same day as the marches in other regional cities such as Ayacucho, Huacho, Huaraz and Huancayo. National sources say little about organisers or route; current details are shared by local groups on social media.
How political queer activism in Trujillo can be is shown by a protest of the Red TLGB network. Around a hundred people marched through the centre and staged a sit-in outside the Superior Court of La Libertad on the Paseo Peatonal Pizarro. They demanded justice for the killings of trans women and an end to transphobia. The protest was led by Luisa Revilla, a trans city councillor from the neighbouring district of La Esperanza.
The legal backdrop explains why marches in Peru are first and foremost about demands. Homosexuality has been legal for around a hundred years, and a government decree bans discrimination and hate crimes based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Trans people can change their legal gender through the courts without surgery. Same-sex couples, however, can neither marry nor enter a civil union.
Visitors coming for the march can easily combine it with the surroundings: Chan Chan, the largest adobe city of the pre-Columbian world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, lies just outside town.
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