(28 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quito, Ecuador – 28 June 2025
1. People running with large flag through streets of Quito
2. Person wearing wedding dress during Pride parade
3. People carrying large rainbow flag
4. People marching carrying banners, one on right reading (Spanish) "Here we are, with pain, anger, but together"
5. Various of parade
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Malony Chavez, transgender activist:
"It’s not necessary for us to be accepted, just for people to have empathy. We are human beings, and we fight for the rights of all human beings."
7. People marching, person holding rainbow flag
8. Person playing drum
9. Percussion band marching
10. People holding rainbow flag
11. Pride participants on top of bus
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru – 28 June 2025
12. Wide of people holding large banner reading (Spanish): "Our rights are non-negotiable. No more hate laws"
13. Various of people on trucks during Pride parade
14. Mid of Jorge Apolaya, parade organizer
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Apolaya, parade organizer:
"In the face of hatred and hate laws, for us the most important thing is to organize. This march is the product of our organization, to move from indignation to organization. To communicate and live pride as a response to actions that are promoted against the LGBTI population."
16. Various of people marching, playing drums, dancing
STORYLINE:
A rainbow wave swept through one of the main thoroughfares of Ecuador’s capital on Saturday as the annual Pride parade took place, which this year called for an end to violence and discrimination in a country besieged by crime.
Hundreds of participants carried large multicolored flags, wigs, balloons, and bandanas as they marched from a popular commercial area in northern Quito to Bicentenario Park, where an artistic event — scheduled to last into the evening — was set to include the reading of a manifesto.
According to a report by Silueta X, an organization that defends the rights of LGBTQ+ people in Ecuador, 27 members of the community were murdered in 2023, 16 of whom were transgender women.
In 2024, 14 violent deaths have been reported —10 of them trans women, officials said.
Ecuador is experiencing unprecedented levels of violence, in which, according to activists, the LGBTQ+ community faces heightened vulnerability.
In Peru, thousands gathered at Campo de Marte in Lima to celebrate Pride.
For 23 years, Peru’s LGBTQ+ community has taken to the streets to speak out against discriminatory laws and expressions of hatred.
This marks one of the largest Pride demonstrations in Peru.
AP video shot by Cesar Olmos, Cesar Barreto and Mauricio Munoz
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