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Column #3 Present at You Can't Live on Love 2019
Presentes co-director María Eugenia Ludueña spoke with Franco Trochia on Carnival Monday about all the LGBT issues of the week.
First day for a trans girl at a girls' school in Chile: "It's historic"
This Tuesday marked a historic moment for inclusion in Chilean education, and especially at the all-girls Liceo 1 Javiera Carrera in Santiago. Seventeen-year-old transgender student Arlene Aliaga had her first day of classes after finally being admitted, a position she had initially been denied.
La comadre Quirquiña, a drag cholita at carnival
She arrived in Argentina from Bolivia and in Villa Soldati she became known as Quirquiña, the godmother.
Transvestite-trans memory: “Carnival was the only moment of freedom”
Photos and testimonies from the Trans Memory Archive explain why the parade was the moment that transvestites and trans people waited for all year.
Transvestite-trans memory: “Carnival was the only moment of freedom”
Photos and testimonies from the Trans Memory Archive explain why the parade was the moment that transvestites and trans people waited for all year.
For the first time, an identity document will say "transvestite femininity"
The protagonist of this unprecedented event is the trans activist Lara Bertolini, a law student and judicial official
For the first time, an identity document will say "transvestite femininity"
The protagonist of this unprecedented event is the trans activist Lara Bertolini, a law student and judicial official
And who are you to talk about our HIV?
By Lucas Fauno Gutiérrez. In recent weeks, television panelists have claimed that they raise awareness of the virus when they discuss the HIV status of a deceased person: a lie. What they are doing is exposing a person, publicly shaming them. They are talking about someone who doesn't even have a voice to respond. If this person chose not to be HIV-positive while alive…
BichoYYO: Revealing that someone has HIV without their consent is a crime
By Lucas Fauno (script) and Jon Amarillo (illustrations) Every Thursday on Presentes, a new episode of Bicho and Me: #BichoAndMe60: the condom dilemma #BichoAndMe59: Will there ever be a film about HIV that isn't a melodrama? #BichoAndMe58: Let's make a comic about an HIV-positive superhero #BichoAndMe57: Facing conspiracy theories, information and activism Bicho and Me 56:…