On May 31, 1989, an armed contingent of the MRTA entered the Las Gardenias nightclub in the city of Tarapoto (department of San Martín), in the jungle of Peru, took eight gay and trans people out of the club and shot them dead in the street.
Jessica Millamán, a young trans woman, was verbally assaulted by an employee of the public transportation company Metrovías. Following media coverage, the company suspended the employee.
Matías, the 16-year-old trans youth who committed suicide last week in Copiapó, Chile, was honored in a march and vigil in front of his high school, where friends and family attended.
Gala was 19 years old and in a relationship with Víctor Ezequiel Natalio Martínez. “It was a violent relationship, but she was very much in love and covered for him.”
The Movement for Homosexual Integration (Movilh) denounced the suicide of a 16-year-old trans youth in Copiapó, a city in northern Chile. On Thursday, May 23, Matías, as he was known, jumped from the building where he lived.
The well-known gay makeup artist Guillermo Sandoval Agurto was murdered on May 18 at his home: his body was found bound and with cuts.
Two trans women, part of the civil society group against forced displacement due to violence, were denied entry to the public venue.
This afternoon there were two key events in the trial: the charge was changed from simple homicide to hate crime and transfemicide; and a “repentant” witness declared that the accused Ángel Azzolini and Oscar Biott had dismembered the young woman.
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…
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