Trans and travesti groups are demanding historical reparations for those who survived structural violence and persecution simply for existing. On Trans and Travesti National Day, for the third year in a row, they took their demands to Plaza de Mayo.
For four years, photographer Jess Insfrán Pérez documented the life of Liz Paola Cortaza, a trans woman and survivor of the Stroessner dictatorship in Paraguay. The result is How Many Memories Does Memory Hold?, a photographic essay that celebrates her existence and denounces the historical debts of the State.
The judge was ordered to expand the investigation of the accused in the triple lesbian murder in Barracas and to consider it a hate crime, as requested by the plaintiffs and the prosecution. The court's decision was announced on what would have been Andrea's birthday, the partner of Sofía, the sole survivor.
Ariel Castillo worked at the Teatro Colón, was 47 years old, and lived in San Martín. His killers are still at large. Activists denounce this as an organized crime group that targets gay men.
The government of Dina Boluarte enacted Law 32331, passed by Congress, which prohibits transgender people from using public restrooms that align with their gender identity. Congresswoman Susel Paredes is facing an unusual lawsuit over the same issue.
The Third Plurisexual Reunion “Transfeminist Borders, Racialized Bodies, Anti-Capitalist Territories” brings together activists from Peru, Argentina and Chile.
Trans activist Claudia Vasquez Haro suffered another attack on her home in La Plata by a man accused of gender violence.
Hugo Cordova Quero is a queer theologian and specialist in religious studies. He analyzes the Roman Catholic Church's relationship with sexual diversity and Christianity, and its impact on the election of a new Pope.
The experiences of trans children, and the possible treatments, are being used to generate a public and media conflict that is often unrelated to the experiences themselves.
Women who are part of Lesbianes Autoconvocades por la Masacre de Barracas (Self-Organized Lesbians for the Barracas Massacre) recount what that brutal crime meant and how it impacted activism.
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