Ecuadorian LGBTQ Awareness Month

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Torres, María Elissa, Jessica Slattery. 2019. "Ecuadorian LGBTQ Awarness Month" In Suarez, Maka, Jorge Nunez, Maria Elissa Carrasco Torres, and Ronny Rafael Zegarra Pena. 2019. “Kaleidoscopic STS: interruptions from the Global South." In STSInfrastructures Digital Exhibit, curated by Aalok...Read more

Contributors

María Elissa Torres Carrasco

Jorge Nunez

Maka Suarez

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ARTICULATION

About Ecuadorian LGBTQ Awareness Month

We will promote October as LGBTQ Awareness Month in Ecuador by hosting weekly radio programs with 'Sin Etiquetas' , the first LGBTQ radio show in Cuenca. 'Sin Etiquetas'...Read more

CONTEXTS

Ecuadorian LGBTQ Context

Currently Ecuador is experiencing violent w aves of LGBTQ-phobia resulting from the Same-Sex Marriage Act passed on June 12, 2019. Religious beliefs and a general lack of awareness of prior legal advances, such as the decriminalization of homosexuality (1997) and the Gender Identity Law (2016),...Read more