Colectiva Lésbica Feminista Ayuquelén
LGBT activist group in Chile
Colectiva Lésbica Feminista Ayuquelén (transl. Ayuquelén Lesbian Feminist Collective), sometimes called Ayuquelén, is a Chilean LGBT advocacy group. Founded in 1984, Ayuquelén was the sole political voice for LGBT people in Chile during the mid 1980s and in the period of Pinochet's dictatorship until the formation of Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis in 1988.
History
The motivation for founding Ayuquelén was partly a reaction to the murder of Mónica Briones by a former friend and ex-detective based on her sexual orientation. Other reasons for its formation was to challenge compulsory heteronormativity in conservative Chile and feminine heterosexuality in Chile's feminist movement.
Discussions about forming a lesbian organization in Latin American countries started at the second Latin America and Caribbean Feminist Conference held in the outskirts of Lima, Peru. At the conference, a lesbian themed workshop was organized, in which Chilean Cecilia Riquelme met other lesbians who shared ideas about opening a discourse about lesbian rights within women's rights groups. At the workshop, many women came out publicly as lesbians while discussing ideas about forming organizations to bring visibility to the lesbian movement in the region. The organization known as the Lesbian Feminist Activist Group, Peru (GALF) was initiated as a result of the conference discussions.
In 1984, a group of women led by Cecilia Riquelme, Susana Peña and Carmen Ulloa formed Collectiva Lésbica Feminista Ayuquelén, the first forum for gay and lesbians in Chile. The organization went on to represent Chile's lesbian community in LGBT conferences and was a coordinator of the first conference of Lesbian Feminists of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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