On Saturday, March 24, Matías Villalba and Ariel Croce were attacked by two men as they arrived at the General Roca train station in Quilmes. It was approximately 7:00 a.m. The couple were walking hand in hand after spending the night at a party with friends.
There are people who think that because we are HIV+ they have the freedom to speak as if what they say does not affect us.
The Ombudsman's Office met with Caserta and provided training to FM Cien on communicating about sexual diversity. "Caserta committed to broadcasting public service announcements in its programming to promote the rights to non-discrimination and gender identity."
Column #11 Tuesday, March 27, 2018 [Listen to the audio] http://bit.ly/2Gtj7jt Use the up/down arrow keys to increase or decrease the volume. You can also listen to us live every Monday (almost Tuesday) at 1 am on La Once Diez, the public radio station of the City of Buenos Aires. The columns of…
María Guadalupe Hernández Flores, known as Lucrecia or Kleo, was a lesbian, feminist, and activist for the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people. Her body was found with signs of torture on a property in the municipality of Coroneo after she had been missing for more than ten days.
By Ana Fornaro and María Eugenia Ludueña. Diana Sacayán was brutally murdered in her own home, while defenseless from the severe beating she had received. The trans activist and human rights defender was bound, gagged, attacked in numerous ways, and fatally stabbed. This is what she told…
I never heard anyone shout “hetero” as an insult. Now, “faggot” is commonplace. All of us who distanced ourselves from the privileges of heterosexuality learned to transform insults into pride. Those of us who pulse with a rhythm that clashes with the choreography of heteronormativity were disqualified from that board of the “Game of Normal Life” and had to learn to survive by other rules. So today, when the National Secretariat of Human Rights tweets that “heterosexuality is part of sexual diversity,” the scars left on me by not being that heterosexual, and, according to the government, diverse sexuality, still burn.
Luciana Sánchez, lawyer for the family lawsuit headed by Sasha Sacayán, explains why the trial for the transvesticide of Diana is historic.
I was born in Rosario and I'm an older trans woman. When I was 16, I was kicked out of my house and started working as a prostitute because it was the only way out I had. At that time, we were just called transvestites; the word "trans" didn't exist. I had to flee to Buenos Aires because during a police raid, I broke a police chief's nose with my purse. I was just a kid. I arrived at my aunt's house and started working as a prostitute in secret. I struggled a lot, and I also had that rebellious streak of youth: the more you're told not to do something, the more you do it.
Cordoban filmmaker Daniel Tortosa explains why his documentary "Los Maricones" (which can be viewed in its entirety here) addresses the repression of gay and trans people during the last dictatorship, but it doesn't end there. Released in 2016, the testimonies recover marginalized voices and warn of the return of punitivism and police harassment of dissident sexual identities.
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