The commercial premiered two weeks ago and is part of a campaign by the company Zona Jobs. It stars Mariana Genesio Peña, an actress from Córdoba, and was nominated for the Lola Mora Awards. It has received both praise and criticism.
Florencia B. (27 years old) and Irupé B. (23 years old) are girlfriends. On Friday the 20th, they were assaulted by the owner of a supermarket in Morón, in Greater Buenos Aires, while shopping. “He insulted us in front of everyone and nobody did anything,” one of the women said. The couple filed a complaint with the Morón Prosecutor's Office No. 2 and with the National Institute Against Discrimination, Racism and Xenophobia (INADI).
Pía Ceballos, a trans activist from Salta, wrote an open letter from one trans generation to another.
Various studies conducted in Argentina – by both civil society and the national government – confirm that 98% of transvestite and transgender people do not have formal employment and that at least 90% are or have been involved in prostitution, an imposed destiny that perpetuates inequality, repression, and…
Since I made my HIV status public, many people tell me about family members or acquaintances who died with HIV or even AIDS in the closet. These are stories silenced within families, shared in hushed tones by grandmothers or aunts—realities that will also die with the few who know about them.
Fernando Adrián Albornoz, 34, is an LGBTI activist. On Monday, as he arrived home in a building in the Barrio Norte neighborhood of Buenos Aires, he was attacked by a neighbor: he pushed him against the elevator mirror and said, “I don’t want to see any faggots or queers in my building. If I see you here again, I’ll kill you.”
Joe Lemonge is a trans man from the city of Santa Elena, Entre Ríos. In October 2016, he was attacked for the fourth time by a group of men who were harassing him. He defended himself and is now on trial for attempted murder.
In this radio segment on "You Can't Live on Love" with Franco Torchia, we discuss what happened at the last hearing in the trial for the transphobic murder of Diana Sacayán; the latest developments in the case of Mariana Gómez, imprisoned for kissing: the judge authorized a search of her home. We also talk about the transphobic murder of Cinthia Moreira in Tucumán and the request from organizations to investigate the murder of a 65-year-old man in San Isidro (Buenos Aires) as a hate crime.
Trans activist Lara Bertolini is calling for the inclusion of non-heteronormative identities in the ongoing debate to decriminalize abortion. "The presentations made by the Women's Movement approach it from a binary feminist perspective, because they don't include lesbians, pregnant people, or trans men," she says.
In a pre-election atmosphere tainted by hate speech from ultraconservative parties, it's difficult to find openly gay, lesbian, trans, or bisexual candidates on the party lists for the general elections this Sunday, April 22, in Paraguay. But there are exceptions, such as Yren Rotela, the first trans woman to be a candidate in…
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