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We’re everywhere.
We could be your brother, your father, your daughter.
We could be arrested in 80 countries, and in 9, we face the death penalty.
We’re 3% of Peru’s population almost a million people.
The law doesn’t recognize our rights. We suffer discrimination, violence, humiliation.
Here we are again.
How did I get involved with this?
When was the first time we did it?
It was three years ago.
Do you remember?
The thousand excuses we looked for
not to do it:
There was no time.
We didn't feel like it.
What if...
But it went well.
It took us some time,
but we did it.
And now,
we’re back to the same thing.
I don’t know if we can do it.
I remember the last time
when my father was around
and he caught me off guard.
And I saw him
and in the calmest way
he hugged me.
He kissed me
and he laughed, right?
It was the kind of support
that tells you
it doesn’t matter.
It doesn’t matter what you do
I mean, I am his son, right?
Isn’t that nice?
Now we’re going to paint our nails.
We don’t like to paint them very much
but it looks really good.
It’s been so long since
since it showed up in our life.
The diagnosis that
we never imagined appeared.
*** appeared.
And it made us think
that soon we wouldn’t be here.
And we didn’t know from where,
from where
we would get that strength
to be doing this now.
Look at you.
Here we are.
Who would have believed it?
We have the energy,
we have the health to do it.
When they gave us the results
we thought we deserved it.
We thought that
there was no other way.
That for being gay,
for being like this,
for being like that.
Soon we felt so much guilt.
We couldn’t tell anyone.
We were so ashamed.
How time has changed us.
I think it’s because
we think of it as a second chance,
to do
something worthwhile.
It’s crazy because
we thought that
we weren’t going to have a future.
But we do.
Many friends,
a lot of people
were lost.
It’s a chance
It’s a chance to do
something more
because we have to get people’s attention.
We have to make the people listen,
to make them know.
Oh, what they say about us!
What they say behind our backs.
Those little ***,
those transvestites.
Well, but we look really good.
We can overcome it.
Ok, ***, make a decision.
It’s now
or never.
You can do it.
What’s the worst that can happen?
The four friends you have
are going to leave you, you know?
No.
Should I use it?
Mmm, very nice.
Should I not use it?
Should I use it?
How easy it would be
to cover myself up again.
GAY PRIDE DAY, Lima - Peru