{"id":208173,"date":"2021-06-18T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/18\/pride-month-in-guatemala-marred-by-killings-of-three-lgbtq-people"},"modified":"2021-06-18T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T10:30:23","slug":"pride-month-in-guatemala-marred-by-killings-of-three-lgbtq-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/18\/pride-month-in-guatemala-marred-by-killings-of-three-lgbtq-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride month in Guatemala marred by killings of three LGBTQ+ people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrations become \u2018month of mourning\u2019 after three murders in a week, with calls for urgent state reform<\/p><p>Guatemala\u2019s LGBTQ+ community is in mourning after two transgender women and a gay man were murdered in less than a week during pride month.<\/p><p>Andrea Gonz\u00e1lez, a prominent activist and leader in the transgender women\u2019s organisation Otrans Reinas de la Noche (Queens of the Night) was shot dead on 11 June in the street near her home in Guatemala City. Her murder followed the killing of another Otrans member, Cecy Ixpat\u00e1, who was assaulted and died from her injuries on 9 June in a hospital in Salam\u00e1, about 50 miles north of Guatemala City. Jos\u00e9 Manuel Vargas Villeda, a 22-year-old gay man was also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PDHgt\/status\/1405576169513271305\">shot and killed on 14 June in Morales<\/a>, 150 miles north-east of the capital.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/09\/epidemic-of-violence-brazil-shocked-by-barbaric-gang-rape-of-gay-man\">\u2018Epidemic of violence\u2019: Brazil shocked by \u2018barbaric\u2019 gang-rape of gay man<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/18\/pride-month-in-guatemala-marred-by-killings-of-three-lgbtq-people\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/18\/pride-month-in-guatemala-marred-by-killings-of-three-lgbtq-people\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrations become \u2018month of mourning\u2019 after three murders in a week, with calls for urgent state reformGuatemala\u2019s LGBTQ+ community is in mourning after two transgender women and a gay man were murdered in less than a week during pride month.Andrea G&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1280,1333,31,6,640,1336,16395,520,1576,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208174,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208173\/revisions\/208174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}