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Trans people denounce inhumane treatment in detention centers in the US
Trans migrants, originally from Mexico and Central America, denounced abuses and discriminatory treatment.
LGBTphobia in Chile: Trans woman attacked with machete and gay couple beaten
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.
A McDonald's security guard attacked a young gay man in a bathroom in Buenos Aires.
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).
Chile: Activists criticize how the gender identity law will be implemented
“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.”
Hate crime in Rosario: he was brutally murdered, it's being investigated as a robbery
Marcelo Giudici, La Faraona, was a renowned stylist from Rosario, a trainer of hairdressers, an LGBT activist and an artist.
Uruguay: first call for trans job quota in the State
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.
Crimes against lesbians remain unpunished in Chile: they demand justice
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.
Trans activist Bessy Ferrera murdered: fifth hate crime this week
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.
Two trans women attacked in one week: gunshots and bottles thrown at them
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.
A Jamaican trans woman seeking refuge in Argentina had three fingers cut off.
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.