Convicted for defending himself: the story of Joe Lemonge in comic book form
By Florencia Capella. Screenplay: Ana Fornaro and María Eugenia Ludueña.
By Florencia Capella. Screenplay: Ana Fornaro and María Eugenia Ludueña.
Football and advertising, in the last (at least) 20 years of history, have remained unchanged. No social forces, no regulatory advances, no shifts, and above all, no pretense. They are two extremely powerful sectors of society that don't even need to feign compliance or make public commitments.
The first time I saw an infectious disease specialist, she tried to bribe me. She told me my tests were fine, but that I should get them done at a lab she trusted, and that if I mentioned her name, I'd get a discount. I had all the paperwork, but I didn't know anything—not what a CD4 count was, what a viral load was, nothing.
Luana's mother, the first trans girl in Argentina to legally change her gender, has just published her second book, "Free Butterflies." Following "Me, a Girl, Me, a Princess," she recounts her daughter's life and the realities of life and raising trans children in Argentina.
Mauro Oviedo, a player for Córdoba Rugby Club, insulted, grabbed by the hair, and slammed the head of Jorgelina Sapp, the young owner of Casa Warhol, a cultural bar known for its LGBTQ+ community in Córdoba, against a column. Following the victim's criminal complaint, the club has promised sanctions.
Yesterday was one of the most tense moments of the trial for the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán, the transvestite activist and human rights defender murdered in October 2015.
We discussed everything that happened at the seventh hearing of the trial for the transphobic murder of Diana Sacayán. We also covered the hearing that convicted Joe Lamonge, a trans man accused of attempted murder, and the ongoing demands for justice in the province of Entre Ríos, among other topics.
Transvestite and trans activists and militants, feminist groups and sexual dissidents demonstrated this Monday afternoon at the door of the Courts, in Paraná, to demand the acquittal of Joe Lemonge, the young trans man sentenced to five years and six months in prison after being considered "material author of attempted homicide".
In Uruguay, the trans population experiences multiple situations of vulnerability while the comprehensive law for trans people remains in the drawers of Parliament.