The draft gender identity law was presented to the Peruvian Congress, and days later the Constitutional Court recognized this right through a ruling in a country where 20% of the trans population lacks a national identity document. There is still a long way to go, but the Peruvian LGBTQ+ community remains hopeful. For…
The trans and transvestite population suffered—and continues to suffer—systematic persecution and violations of human rights by the Argentine State. LGBTI organizations are promoting "Recognizing is Repairing," a campaign that seeks to make this violence visible and pass into law the bill for a gratuity pension for survivors. By: @Inflafoy Photos: Ariel Gutraich Norma…
Claudia Vásquez Haro, president of OTRANS Argentina, led a historic mission to the UN: on behalf of 22 organizations, she delivered a report denouncing the human rights situation of transvestites and transgender people in Argentina. A look at the life and activism of a leading figure who forced the Argentine State to commit to certain actions. Photos: Ariel Gutraich…
María Belén Correa, with the support of photographer Cecilia Estalles Alcón, set out to collect personal photographs and documentation from the Argentine transvestite, transgender, and transsexual community to rescue from oblivion those who, due to repressive laws and discrimination, were erased from social history. Thus, the Memory Archive was born…
Within the framework of the #RecognizeIsRepair Campaign, and with the purpose of demanding the immediate parliamentary consideration of bill 2526 “Reparation Regime for Victims of Institutional Violence Based on Gender Identity,” various sexual diversity organizations and self-organized individuals gathered in front of the Argentine National Congress to take a collective photo, to put their bodies on the line…
They created the cooperative in 2010, and the success of their production of Federico García Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba" took them on tour for five seasons. The first week of December they organize a theater festival in the town of 25 de Mayo, and by 2017 they want to become a production company…
Muxes are members of the indigenous community of Juchitán (Mexico) who are born with male biology but identify as female. Integrated into their culture since pre-Hispanic times, they only began dressing as women in the 1960s. Presentes spoke with Amaranta Gómez Regalado, a muxe activist and social anthropologist, who explains how tensions between the global and the local also affect struggles for sexual diversity in Latin America.
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