Employment quotas continue to be implemented in Argentina. The city council of San Isidro, in the province of Buenos Aires, approved an ordinance establishing that 1% of public positions must be filled by transgender, transsexual, and gender-diverse people.
By Lucas Gutiérrez. In one week, three hate crimes against the LGBT+ community took place in La Plata. On Monday, Herman Müller was kicked after being threatened with death. On Saturday, Jhonan de la Barrera and his partner were attacked by a group of men. And on Sunday, Cristian…
In the context of the debate on the Gender Identity Law, the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh) released the results of the Identity Survey, the first national survey on the trans reality applied in person and electronically to 326 people over 14 years of age.
In this weekly LGBTQ+ news segment, which airs every Monday after midnight on "No se puede vivir del amor" (You Can't Live on Love), the most exciting late-night radio show on sexual, emotional, and journalistic diversity worldwide, we discuss Dr. Abel Albino's controversial statements about HIV, the initiative by the Uruguayan LGBT Chamber to promote inclusion in companies, and the march held in Córdoba three years after the transfemicide of Laura Moyano.
Laura Moyano was a 35-year-old trans woman. She lived in the 9 de Julio neighborhood and was actively involved in the community, which made her very beloved by her neighbors. She volunteered for community projects, was part of the Women's Group at Health Center No. 34, and was finishing primary school at the Saúl Taborda School. On July 25, 2015, Laura was found murdered in an abandoned lot in Villa Allende Parque. Her body had been brutally beaten. Her family alleges that the police released images of her body, which then went viral, before they were formally notified of the murder.
By Lucas Fauno Gutiérrez (script and text) and Jon Amarillo (illustrations) We, the people living with HIV, those who have the virus, and those who support the cause, repudiate not only the statements made by Dr. Abel Albino yesterday in Congress, but also what his role in medicine and the State represents. That in 2018 a professional…
This article is published in partnership with the Uruguayan newspaper La Diaria. The Uruguayan LGBT Chamber of Commerce was created in 2015 by ten businesspeople working in the tourism and communications sectors, “with a focus, above all, on the LGBT community,” the Chamber’s vice president told La Diaria.
Cuba's parliament has begun debating a draft of a new constitution that, among other things, paves the way for legalizing same-sex marriage, a long-standing demand of the LGBT community on the island. The current constitution, dating from 1976, limits marriage to "the voluntary union of…
In this radio segment, which airs every Monday after midnight on "No se puede vivir del amor" (You Can't Live on Love), we discuss the homophobic attack suffered by Hermann, an acting student, in La Plata, and the reports from LGBTQ+ organizations regarding violence against LGBTQ+ people. We also talk about television and trans people, and about the columns written for "Presentes" by trans activist Quimey Ramos and Gabriela Mansilla from Niñeces Libres (Free Children).
This morning in the city of La Plata, Hermann Müller (a 30-year-old actor) was attacked for being gay. “He’s a faggot, let’s kill him!” two men told him before attacking him. Hermann kept walking, but by the time he realized what was happening, they were already beating him. The police station refused to take his report.
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