Inmigracion Lgtb in Buenos Aires

"When I arrived in buenos aires I was 23 years old, today I am 37, for the first time I could go to gay disco or enter a hotel with another man, in Peru I could not have done it."

Although we left our countries in search of a better future, I find in several immigrants that the implicit and main reason is to find that freedom that is not available at home. This documentary project in process since 2018 was born in the form of my personal experience. Photography seeks me and finds me, forces me to represent those themes that surround me, that touch me closely, that make me suffer and free me, I am a gay immigrant in Buenos Aires.

© Carloman Macidiano Céspedes Riojas - Image from the Inmigracion Lgtb in Buenos Aires photography project
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Rami and Adri are a couple of Colombians, since 3 years they live in Buenos Aires. For the work they lived in several countries of Latin America and recently in Argentina they feel comfortable with their sexuality. Of all the countries of latinomaerica we would not return to Peru, "one morning we got up very beaten, my father broke his ribs and my right arm" says Adrian

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"I accepted that I was gay a long time ago, I really like men, only that" being gay "is more like a lifestyle to which I feel half exposed to meet the guys I like ... but, honestly, it's basically for me that ... the underground gay world seems frivolous and superfluous, full of little acceptance and discrimination disguised as a united community, if I could stop being gay, I would! "

© Carloman Macidiano Céspedes Riojas - Image from the Inmigracion Lgtb in Buenos Aires photography project
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"I miss my country, but in Buenos Aires I have freedom. Here I can go down the street dressed as I want, there is freedom to be and use whatever I want. "Moises,

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"Immigration helped my freedom, but it was easy. Since I started dating men, we used underground to meet, it was difficult to go to hotels with another man"

© Carloman Macidiano Céspedes Riojas - Image from the Inmigracion Lgtb in Buenos Aires photography project
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"I do not want to go back to Peru, to return to Peru would be to renounce my identity, outside Miraflores I could not walk hand in hand with another boy."

© Carloman Macidiano Céspedes Riojas - Image from the Inmigracion Lgtb in Buenos Aires photography project
© Carloman Macidiano Céspedes Riojas - "For 8 years I have a relationship with Pablo, but my family who is in Colombia thinks he is a friend "
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"For 8 years I have a relationship with Pablo, but my family who is in Colombia thinks he is a friend "

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