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The trial for the transfemicide of Marcela Chocobar begins
More than three years after the hate crime, the accused will be tried for the transfemicide of Marcela Chocobar in Río Gallegos.
Argentina: Health officials demand guarantee the rights of transgender people
Seven years after the enactment of the Gender Identity Law, social security organizations and private health insurance companies still do not fully cover hormonal treatments.
People in Argentina denounce the removal of pensions for HIV+ individuals.
HIV+ people who receive Non-Contributory Pensions were ordered to make a Digital Medical Certificate without which they will stop receiving this income.
Two lesbians were murdered and their bodies were marked with hate messages.
Betzi Esmeralda Có Sagastume and Kelli Maritza Villagrán Recinos were found dead on April 23, tied to each other with adhesive tape.
The courts ordered the regulation of a transgender employment quota in Buenos Aires.
The lawsuit was filed by a trans lawyer and activist based on a 2012 law that establishes the implementation of a public policy of labor inclusion for LGBTI people.
Police raided a transvestite-trans organization in La Matanza
Various human rights and LGBTQ+ organizations in Argentina condemned the raid on Tuesday, April 23, at the headquarters of MAL (Anti-Discrimination Liberation Movement), founded by the murdered trans activist Diana Sacayán and currently coordinated by her brother Sasha Sacayán. According to Sacayán's account to Presentes, they were meeting with more than 15 women…
Three transgender women were murdered in one month in Mexico City
Trans and human rights activists in Mexico are on alert due to the string of transfemicides in the last month: there were three in less than 30 days.
Gay couple kicked out of campsite: “You have to leave because there are children present”
“We were hugging in front of the river, we kissed a few times, and a man who didn't want to identify himself approached us and told us that what we were doing wasn't right.”
Column #10 of Presents in You Can't Live on Love 2019
Ana Fornaro, co-director of Agencia Presentes, spoke on "No se puede vivir del amor" (You Can't Live on Love) on La Once Diez radio and reviewed the main LGBT+ news stories of the week in the region:
Colombia: First collective reparation for LGBT+ victims of the conflict
The LGBT Roundtable of Commune 8 in Medellín is the first sexual diversity organization recognized as a Subject of Collective Reparation in the Colombian armed conflict.