In one week, there were at least two reported attacks against LGBT people in Chile. On July 9, Scarlet Pérez Mariange, a trans woman, was attacked, and on July 15, a gay couple was attacked as they left a party.
On Thursday, November 11, David Palomino was using the restroom at the McDonald's located on the corner of Avenida 9 de Julio and Corrientes in Buenos Aires when a company security guard began to assault him. "You dirty faggot," he yelled, before hitting him and dragging him out. Palomino has already filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor's Office and the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI).
“There was no work with civil society, and the few meetings that (the government) held did not invite all the activists and organizations that worked for this law.”
Marcelo Giudici, La Faraona, was a renowned stylist from Rosario, a trainer of hairdressers, an LGBT activist and an artist.
State Waterworks (OSE) has launched its first recruitment drive for transgender workers in Uruguay. Those interested can apply through the agency's website until July 15th.
Every July 9th, since 2015, the memory of Mónica Briones - a lesbian murdered during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet - drives a day of Lesbian Visibility.
Just nine days into July, statistics in Honduras already show five hate crimes. Three trans women and a bisexual man were murdered, and there was an attempted murder of a trans woman.
Pride Month ended with two hate crimes against transgender people in Paraguay. Barbi Aquino was shot in the arm in the early hours of June 27, and Andrea Casanova was attacked with a glass bottle on June 29.
Angeline is a Jamaican asylum seeker in Argentina who escaped from one of the most homophobic countries in the world and arrived in Buenos Aires, where she rented a room in Villa Soldati.
Lucy told Presentes that the problems with the company began five years ago when she came out as her gender. "They started treating me badly, complaining, and insulting me, but I put up with it because I needed the job."
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