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Almost three years ago, Pedro Nehemias told his mother he was traveling from their rural town in Guatemala to the country’s capital to visit friends and buy some clothes. In reality, he was going to meet a Honduran boy he met on Facebook.
El Salvador’s LGBT community routinely faces high levels of violence and discrimination—at least 145 LGBTI people have been killed in the past three years. In June it held its biggest-ever Pride parade, with some 12,000 people in attendance.
I teamed up with photojournalist Kimberly dela Cruz to tell some stories about what life is like for the LGBTQI community.
“I’m not afraid of you. You can kill me, but not the community behind me. Silence is not on the table.” As the only trans person to run in Honduras’s 2017 general elections, on November 26, 2017, the aspiring politician embodied these words throughout her bid for Congress.
