Héctor Mario Coquean, head of Police Station No. 4 in Lomas de Zamora until 2017, is accused of leading a gang that sexually exploited cisgender, transvestite, and transgender women in situations of structural vulnerability along Provincial Route No. 4.
Photo: Titi Nicola | CC-BY-SA-4.0 Presentes Agency, Wikimedia Argentina, and Periódicas—a feminist media outlet—are inviting people to participate in an LGBT+ edit-a-thon and a workshop for students, journalists, and communicators in the city of Santa Fe: “How to Cover Sexual Diversity Issues from a Rights-Based Perspective.” The activities will take place on Friday, May 31st…
“We are being discriminated against for being transgender. We are part of El Salvador and as such we demand our fundamental rights.”
On Tuesday, May 14th, at the civil registry in Mar del Plata, the birth certificate of Tito, a five-year-old transgender child, was amended. This is the step prior to issuing an ID card that reflects the gender identity he has expressed since he began speaking.
In Paraguay, a law against all forms of discrimination and a gender identity law are becoming increasingly urgent. People in the LGBTIQ+ community find no protection in the justice system when hate crimes and abuses of power are committed.
Sexual orientation is the physical, emotional, erotic, affective, and spiritual attraction that a person feels for another, whether of the same or different sex. Gender identity is the lived experience of an individual's gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex assigned at birth.
Following the impact of the march, several posts began circulating on Facebook declaring May 11 as the Day of the Cuban LGBTIQ Movement, as a "historic day", as "the Stonewall of Cuba".
Being gay, growing up gay, in the nineties and in a small town is complicated. No amount of self-esteem or optimism can overcome the multitude of signs that simultaneously tell you that deviating from the norm will be severely punished.
On Tuesday, the Comprehensive Bill on HIV, AIDS, viral hepatitis and STIs was presented in the Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, seeking to replace City Ordinance No. 45381.
Photo: Ariel Gutraich. In March of this year, a landmark ruling by the 7th Civil Court of the City of Buenos Aires granted the request of trans activist Lara Bertolini to have her self-perceived identity, "transvestite femininity," recorded on her official documents. Now, the National Registry of Persons (RENAPER) has appealed the ruling and…
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