"I want to emancipate myself from Christmas, like Mica surely does from her uncle and the imposed mandates; as children deserve; like all my trans and travesti comrades who on this hegemonic date are stripped and forced into the gathering," writes Violeta Alegre.
– My name is Alma, I'm from Tucumán, Débora Britos brought me here, I don't pay for a place – I replied.
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.
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