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Bar Abanicos Police Raid
The ''Bar Abanicos'' police raid took place on the night of June 14, 1997, in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador, Cuenca, Ecuador. During the raid, the police arrested homosexual and transgender people who had come to the bar for the election of the city's first gay queen. The detainees were tortured and raped inside the jail, with the consent of the police. The event generated reactions of rejection at the national level and was the trigger for different LGBTQ sectors to organize for the first time in the country and initiate a campaign for the decriminalization of homosexuality in Ecuador, which in November of the same year achieved its goal when the Constitutional Court of Ecuador, Constitutional Court declared that the first paragraph of Article 516 of the Criminal code, Criminal Code, which criminalized homosexuality with a sentence of four to eight years, was unconstitutional. The raid ''Bar Abanicos'' was a popular establishment located on Vargas Machuca and Juan Jaramillo str ...
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Cuenca, Ecuador
Cuenca, officially Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca, is an Ecuadorian city, head of the Cuenca Canton, canton of the same name and capital of the Azuay Province, province of Azuay, as well as its largest and most populated city. It is crossed by the Tomebamba River, Tomebamba, Tarqui River, Tarqui, Yanuncay River, Yanuncay and Machángara River, Machángara rivers, in the south-central Highlands Region (Ecuador), inter-Andean region of Ecuador, in the Paute River, Paute river basin, at an altitude of 2,538 meters above sea level and with a Humid temperate climate, temperate Andean climate averaging 16.3 °C. It has been locally called "Cuenca of the Andes" or "Athens of Ecuador" for its architecture, its cultural diversity, its contribution to Ecuadorian arts, sciences and literature, and for being the birthplace of many illustrious figures of Ecuadorian society. At the 2022 census it had a population of 596,101 inhabitants, making it the third most populous city in the countr ...
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OutRight Action International
Outright International (Outright) is an LGBTIQ human rights non-governmental organization that addresses human rights violations and abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people. OutRight International documents human rights discrimination and abuses based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics in partnership with activists, advocates, media, NGOs and allies on a local, regional, national and international level. OutRight International holds consultative status with ECOSOC. History Outright International, formerly known as International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), was founded by Julie Dorf in 1990, and incorporated as a non-profit organization on November 7, 1990. Though initially focused on LGBT human rights abuses in Russia, the organization is now active in many parts of the world, including the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. OutRight International is headquarte ...
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Unanimity
Unanimity is agreement by all people in a given situation. Groups may consider unanimous decisions as a sign of social, political or procedural agreement, solidarity, and unity. Unanimity may be assumed explicitly after a unanimous vote or implicitly by a lack of objections. It does not necessarily mean uniformity and can sometimes be the opposite of majority in terms of outcomes. Voting Practice varies as to whether a vote can be considered unanimous if some voter abstains. In ''Robert's Rules of Order'', a "unanimous vote" is not specifically defined, although an abstention is not counted as a vote regardless of the voting threshold. Also in this book, action could be taken by " unanimous consent", or "general consent", if there are no objections raised. However, unanimous consent may not necessarily be the same as a unanimous vote (see Not the same as unanimous vote). In either case, it does not take into account the members who were not present. In contrast, a United Na ...
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Quito
Quito (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, Pichincha. Quito is in a valley on the eastern slopes of Pichincha (volcano), Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes. Quito's elevation of makes it either the List of capital cities by altitude, highest or the second highest national capital city in the world. This varied standing is because Bolivia is a List of countries with multiple capitals, country with multiple capitals; if La Paz is considered the Bolivian national capital, it tops the list of highest capitals, but if Sucre is specified as the capital, then it is the second highest, behind Quito. ...
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Permanent Assembly For Human Rights
The Permanent Assembly for Human Rights (in Spanish, La Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos (APDH)) is an Argentine non-governmental human rights organization; founded in 1975. According to its official website the organization is the product of a "call from people coming from distinct areas: the church, politics, Human Rights, sciences, culture, and labour Argentines in response to the increasing violence and the collapse of the most elemental Human Rights in the country". History The Permanent Assembly for Human Rights was founded on December 18, 1975, three months before the military coup that marked the beginning of the dictatorship known as the National Reorganization Process (1976–1983), in the House of Spiritual Exercises within the Church of Santa Cruz, as a result of an initiative of Rosa Pantaleón. Other founders included the Bishop of Neuquén, Jaime de Nevares; Rabbi Marshall Meyer; Bishop Carlos Gatinoni; Alicia Moreau de Justo; Raúl Alfonsín; Oscar ...
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Coccinelle Association
The Coccinelle Association of Gay, ''Travesti (gender identity), Travesti'', and Transgender Persons was an Ecuador, Ecuadorian LGBTQ group created on 20 July 1997. It was the first organization of transgender, lesbian, gay, intersex, and travesti (gender identity), travesti persons in the history of Ecuador. They played a prominent role during the process to achieve the decriminalization of homosexuality in Ecuador, decriminalization of homosexuality in the country, while being Escuadrones volantes, persecuted and repressed by the police, especially during the administration of President León Febres Cordero (1984–1988) and up until that of President Jamil Mahuad (1998–2000). The campaign for decriminalization reached its goal on 25 November 1997. The group was disbanded in 2000 due to conflict among its members. It later became the Ecuadorian Foundation for Sexual Minorities (FEMIS), which was in operation until 2006. Background During the 1990s, Ecuador was going throug ...
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Famivida
Fundación Amigos por la Vida (Famivida) was a non-profit organization in Ecuador created in 1995 that promoted the defense of LGBT rights and the prevention of sexually transmitted infections. It was the first LGBT organization in the history of the city of Guayaquil. Among its members were activists such as Neptalí Arias Zambrano (president of the foundation since its creation), Óscar Ugarte, Gonzalo Abarca and Lía Burbano. By 2014, the foundation had ceased operations. It was active at least until June 2011. History Famivida was officially created on August 15, 1995, under ministerial agreement 2140 of the . It was registered as an organization in favor of HIV/AIDS prevention, without mentioning the defense of LGBT rights, due to the fact that at the time of its creation, homosexuality was still considered a crime in Ecuador. After the Bar Abanicos police raid, which occurred on June 14, 1997, in an LGBT bar in the city of Cuenca, in which several of the detainees suf ...
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Orlando Montoya
Orlando Montoya Herrera (28 August 1952 – 11 January 2021) was a Colombian LGBT activist living in Ecuador. He was one of the most important figures in the early days of LGBT rights activism in Ecuador and in the campaign for the decriminalization of homosexuality in the country, which was achieved in 1997. He was also the founder of several Ecuadorian LGBT organizations, including FEDAEPS and the Equidad Foundation. Biography He was born on 28 August 1952 in El Dovio, a town and municipality in the Department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He lived in Bogotá before moving to Ecuador. On 8 February 1978, he moved with his partner to Quito, where his brothers were studying and where he planned to stay temporarily. A year later, the relationship with his partner ended and he decided to stay in the city permanently. During the 1980s, Montoya worked as a stylist and achieved great prestige among Quito's upper class. Among his clients were figures such as First Lady María Euge ...
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Felipe Vega De La Cuadra
Felipe is the Spanish variant of the name Philip, which derives from the Greek adjective ''Philippos'' "friend of horses". Felipe is also widely used in Portuguese-speaking Brazil alongside Filipe, the form commonly used in Portugal. Noteworthy people with this name include: Royalty * Felipe I of Spain * Felipe II of Spain * Felipe III of Spain * Felipe IV of Spain * Felipe V of Spain * Felipe VI of Spain, King of Spain * Felipe de Marichalar y Borbón, nephew of the Spanish king Others * Felipe Calderón, former President of Mexico * Felipe Herrera, Chilean economist * Felipe Zúniga del Cid (born 1948), Honduran politician * FELIPE may refer to the Popular Liberation Front in Spain Sports Football * Felipe (footballer, born 1977) (Felipe Jorge Loureiro), Brazilian footballer * Felipe (footballer, born 1978) (Felipe Reinaldo da Silva), Brazilian footballer * Felipe (footballer, born February 1984) (Luiz Felipe Ventura dos Santos), Brazilian footballer * Felipe (football ...
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Catholic University Of Cuenca
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.Gerald O'Collins, O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites#Churches, ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and Eparchy, eparchies List of Catholic dioceses (structured view), around the world, each overseen by one or more Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the Papal supremacy, chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The ...
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