Why are lesbians being burned alive in Argentina?

Lesbophobia in Argentina, as in any country, existed. But thanks to the far-right government that won the 2023 elections with hate speeches of Javier Milei's mandate, it intends to further this lesbophobia.

On May 5, 2024, two lesbian couples who lived in the same room, Pamela Cobbas, her girlfriend Mercedes Roxana Figueroa, and temporarily Sofía Castro Riglos and Andrea Amaranto, were victims of their neighbor Justo Fernando Barrientos in a family hotel in Barracas, Buenos Aires. After the man threatened to kill them, that night he threw a Molotov cocktail at them, causing their entire apartment to catch fire while they were sleeping. Even when the women came out of the room in flames, Barrientos began to beat them and pushed them back into the fire. The only survivor of this attack was Sofía Castro Riglos. The case, despite having barely made it into the mainstream media, became so shocking that even the presidential spokesman of Milei's government commented on it, saying that although he repudiated violence (in his words) "I would not like to say that it is an attack on a certain group," completely denying the fact that it was a lesbicide, when THEY WERE MURDERED FOR BEING LESBIANS

More recently, just a few days after President Milei's statements in Word Economic Forum in Davos expressing that "people of sexual diversity are pedophiles," on January 29, another lesbian couple was a victim of lesbophobia. Agui and Vane spent all their savings on building a home in a semi-rural area in Cañuelas to raise their 5-year-old daughter in peace. Although they moved here with the hope of a full life for the three of them, they were actually harassed by their neighbor Lutz Fogar, who constantly watched their house, harassing them by taking photos and making threatening gestures, so much so that not even their daughter could go outside to play. On that day, the aggressor pointed a laser sight at them. They were forced to leave their house. The aggressor, thinking they were still there, doused the house with gasoline in the early morning and set it on fire. They were able to save themselves, but they could not save themselves from harassment just because they wanted to live in peace.

This post is focused on letting the world know what is happening here and showing how hate speech DOES end up being violence for the collective, The consequences of the extreme right fascists and how easy it is to take away our acquired rights. But they will not defeat us so easily, we will go out to the streets to shout the names of these victims and demand our rights that we were able to achieve.