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Transgender Day of Remembrance: “We also want truth and justice”
The members of the Trans Memory Archive tell their story of exclusion, dungeons, and forced exile, but also of joy and resistance.
For the first time, the court ruled based on hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation.
Just days before the one-year anniversary of the hate crime against Jonathan Castellari at the McDonald's on Avenida Córdoba 3188 in Buenos Aires, the seven assailants admitted to attacking him because he is gay. The prosecution agreed to a plea bargain with three years of suspended imprisonment and unpaid community service. This decision still needs to be ratified by the judge of the Oral Court.
Why a national transvestite and transgender employment quota law is urgently needed
On Friday, the labor committee of the Chamber of Deputies postponed the discussion of the Diana Sacayán national transvestite employment quota bill, "a fundamental right that attacks the heart of social transvesticide."
Column #41 Present in You Can't Live on Love
Presentes director María Eugenia Ludueña spoke with Franco Torchia about the XXVII LGBTIQ Pride March in Buenos Aires: how young people took to the streets en masse to put their bodies on the line to celebrate diversity, show their pride, claim their rights, and defend their identities and desires.