In 14 days there were four attacks and attempted attacks on lesbians in Argentina. They occurred after President Javier Milei’s speech in Davos , in which he made a hateful LGBT+ speech full of misinformation. They also occurred in weeks marked by the Antifascist and Antiracist Pride March . They are people who openly show their identity: feminist activists, a couple who walked hand in hand, another who lived in a home and even one woman returning from an assembly prior to the massive march on Saturday, February 1. Many are in a precarious housing situation. In some cases, violence had already been been accompanied by insults and threats.
The escalation of attacks in the last two weeks still brings to mind the triple lesbian murder in Barracas on May 5, 2024. Then, as now, disinformation speeches against sexual diversity set the media agenda and contributed to a violent context. Before the attack that ended the lives of Andrea, Pamela and Roxana and seriously injured Sofía, Justo Barrientos had repeatedly insulted them, alluding to the victims’ sexual orientation, and had threatened to kill them. One day, he made it happen.
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