This Wednesday, August 25, 2021, groups protested in the historic center of Quito to claim for their rights and for the victims of the police and political repression against the LGBTI population in the 1980s and 1990s.
Carolina is one of the Coccinelle girls who survived police repression and discrimination based on her sexual orientation, when being homosexual was punishable by law. Acts of hatred and persecution from the authorities on duty of the Government and the National Police, in each raid, they did not silence their voice.
Today she demands justice. Not only for her, for all the victims who are gone today. She is the second sit-in that they carry out in front of the Carondelet Palace to demand the processing of the complaint for against humanity against the State, presented two years ago. On Wednesday August 18, with a performance by the drag queen artist, Daniel Moreno, he began this measure to protest before the Presidency.
This group was an important part of the fight for the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1997. In the same space where they collected signatures to abolish article 516 of the defunct Penal Code, the survivors demand their rights. “Currently we live in a precarious situation, without social security, without decent housing, and worst of all, still marginalized by the misanthropic and intolerant society,” says one of the posters handed out to those who, with curiosity, observe his poster with the colors of the LGBTI flag and of trans people.
They regret that, despite the fact that it is no longer a crime to be homosexual and even with the new Constitution, hate crimes and disappearances against this population have not stopped. They criticize that the Government, from its Ministries, has not taken actions to prevent and punish these acts.
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