Paraguay 2020: LGBT people resisted state violence and discrimination through self-management.
The year of the pandemic was characterized by a deepening of the social and economic crises that already existed in the LGBT population.
The year of the pandemic was characterized by a deepening of the social and economic crises that already existed in the LGBT population.
Attacks and hate crimes decreased due to quarantines, but the State left LGBT+ people unprotected during the pandemic.
A year of struggles, setbacks and a few advances for people of sexual diversity, who defended democracy in the streets.
Mara Gómez became the first trans woman footballer to play in the first division in Argentina.
There is a little-known reality of young lesbian, bisexual, gay and trans people who have to live with or return to their families during the pandemic.
From the outbreak of November 21st until now, social movements, feminisms and LGBT people have taken their demands to the streets.
In 2020 alone, there were at least 24 hate crimes. But the state doesn't record them, and the public prosecutor's office doesn't investigate them as such.
In the heat of the LGBTI+ struggles, the multiple identities of disability or functional diversity propose new dialogues.
The Paraguayan state has a unique nuclear family model that reproduces traditional gender roles.
COVID-19, Argentina 2020: 140,000 people living with HIV in the country, according to UNAIDS; 38 million worldwide. And me, who am I amidst so many figures and numbers?