But they omitted a key detail: same-sex marriage is not recognized by the Peruvian Constitution or laws. They also failed to mention that both Congress and the Constitutional Court have rejected similar claims multiple times.
The point of this lawfare was not just to seek damages for alleged discrimination, but to force the Peruvian government to formally recognize same-sex “marriage.”
And guess who was helping to fund the media campaign in support of this attack on Peruvian values. You, the American taxpayer were!
This lawsuit is sponsored by the same foreign funded network of LGBTQ+ activists and organizations that have promoted many similar efforts and is the same network that also funds media campaigns aimed at indoctrinating the public with gender ideology. They call it “raising awareness.” We call it anti-marriage, anti-family propaganda.
This particular media campaign was cleverly named Sí Acepto Perú, [“Yes I Accept, Peru”]. It was promoted by an NGO that goes by the title, Más Igualdad. [“More Equality”]. You get the idea.
This lawsuit is just one of ten Más Igualdad has sponsored. The organization has been around since 2017 and exists to promote all manner of LGBTQ+ causes in Peru. Among its other efforts to promote homosexual “marriage” were campaigns entitled Unión Civil Ya [“Civil Union Now”] and Matrimonio Civil Igualitario [“Equal Civil Marriage”].
It’s bad enough that this organization’s media campaign aims to undermine traditional marriage, but the worst part is where the funding for this initiative came from. One of the main donors of Más Igualdad, it turns out, was USAID. The now defunct agency should have been solving basic problems of health and hunger, to the extent it existed at all.
Instead, it was using some of its resources—money from U.S. taxpayers—to finance lawsuits against democratically elected governments whose policies protecting Life and traditional Marriage USAID’s globalist overseers disagreed with.
While Peru is a country with widespread poverty and would welcome help in such areas as education, health, and infrastructure, USAID instead funded NGOs fixated on “diverse sexual preferences” who were seeking to change the Peruvian constitution to promote their sexual habits.
Our investigation, looking into reports from the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI), showed that in 2022, Más Igualdad raised $96,722, an amount that increased to $169,374.60 in 2023. And USAID is listed among its donors, although an exact amount is not given.
What we do know is that USAID funded a major project, called “Promoting Democratic Values and Political Dialogue in Peru,” to the tune of $7.4 million. USAID allocated funds for this program through Resolution No. 72052723GR00001, effective from June 2023 to June 2025.
This is, in the Peruvian context, big money.
The project manager’s idea of “promoting democratic values”—surprise, surprise—was channeling resources to left-leaning NGOs such as Transparencia [Transparency] and the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos [The Institute of Peruvian Studies] and, of course, Más Igualdad.
What was Más Igualdad given the money for? Its openly stated objective was the strengthening of LGBTQ+ organizations and the creation of spaces for democratic dialogue.
In other words, you Dear American Taxpayer, were paying for the funding of LGBTQ+ groups in Peru who were engaged in lawfare against laws passed by the democratically elected legislature, laws which represent the wishes of the majority of people in Peru. All done, ironically, in the name of “promoting democratic values.”
Más Igualdad also received funding from the Tides Foundation, which is backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The UN has also been a big supporter. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) gave Más Igualdad $33,000 for “a study on gender stereotypes among adolescent migrants,” because everyone knows that one of the most pressing problems of teenage migrants is that they believe there are only two sexes.
Not to be outdone, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) funded two projects totaling $83,662 for psychosocial support and counseling specifically for LGBTQ+ refugees.
So what was USAID and the UN engaged in doing in Peru? They were funding (and perhaps even creating) local NGOs to wage legal warfare against the Peruvian Constitution and the Peruvian Congress. They were trying to force the country’s judiciary into imposing homosexual “marriage” by judicial fiat in Peru, just as it was imposed in the U.S.
We are sure that these NGOs will claim that any such criticism constitutes “discrimination and hate speech.” But the facts show, and documents confirm, that they receive hundreds of thousands of dollars for activities that do not make alleviating poverty in Peru a priority.
We hope that the Peruvian government will, like the Trump administration, face the challenge posed by foreign money head on. Trump shut down USAID, cutting off the funding to many NGOs that were promoting abortion and DEI.
The government of Peru likewise needs to take a stand. If NGOs continue to abuse international cooperation by pushing woke lawsuits that aim to undermine the Constitution through the courts, it needs to demand transparency in the use of resources.
