LGBTQ history in Ecuador
The history of LGBTQ people in Ecuador includes pre-Columbian cultural practices, colonial repression, the criminalisation of same-sex sexual activity in the republican period, the emergence of organised activism in the late 20th century, and later legal changes concerning anti-discrimination protections, civil unions, gender identity and same-sex marriage. Archaeological and ethnohistorical studies have suggested that some pre-Columbian cultures in the territory of present-day Ecuador represented same-sex relations, gender ambiguity or non-binary gender roles in ways that differed from later colonial Catholic norms.