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Bicho and I #11: HIV and AIDS are not the same
In this installment, Bicho and I tell us about the differences between HIV and AIDS syndrome.
PERU: “You can’t get rid of being gay with holy water or repression”
Arequipa mayoral candidate Ricardo Medina Minaya proposed converting LGBT people to heterosexuality. Alexandra Hernández, an activist with Matrimonio Igualitario Perú (Equal Marriage Peru), analyzes the rise of this hate speech in the region. She responds and asks: When will we see a candidate who promises to convert homophobes?
Manifesto for a Binational Transvestite/Trans Meeting: #WeTrans
On Saturday, February 10th at 4:30 pm, we will hold the First Binational (Rioplatense) Transvestite/Trans Meeting. It will take the form of an assembly, emerging from dialogue with our Uruguayan sisters, to develop and design a common agenda and build networks.
#Tucumán "We demand justice for all: not one more trans woman, we want to live"
“We demand justice for all. Not one more trans woman lost, we want to live”: this is how the march led by Libertad y Orgullo Trans Organizadxs (LOTO) began, departing from Plaza Urquiza shortly after 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 7. The banner of the Ni Una Menos Tucumán collective accompanied the more than 300 people who marched through the central streets of the provincial capital, supporting the slogan 'Without trans women, there is no Ni Una Menos'.
Transvesticide: A trans woman was murdered in Santa Fe; she was 45 years old.
Adriana Bonetto, 45, lived in San José del Rincón (Santa Fe province), where she was murdered. She was found dead early this morning, wrapped in a bloodstained sheet, with multiple stab wounds to various parts of her body. This was reported today by the Santa Fe Public Prosecutor's Office.
The trial for the transphobic murder of Diana Sacayán begins on February 16.
The public trial for the transphobic murder of Amancay Diana Sacayán will begin on February 16, 2018. This was announced by the Oral Criminal and Correctional Court No. 4 of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
March in Tucumán: "Without trans women there is no Ni Una Menos"
“Without trans women, there is no one less”: less than six months later and in light of the recent acts of violence against trans women and transvestites, the LOTO group (Organized Trans Freedom and Pride) is calling for a new march to demand compliance with the Gender Identity Law, to ask for a trans job quota law and to say Enough of transvesticide and transfemicide.
#Censorship Facebook shut down a page of lesbian activists who provide information about abortion
The website "Abortion Helpline: More Information, Fewer Risks," run by the organization Lesbians and Feminists, had been online for ten years and provided information on how to have an abortion using pills. It was taken down yesterday without prior notice. The reason given: "for promoting drug use." The organization is demanding that the website be reinstated immediately.
Florencia de la V responded to the transphobic remarks: "There is a law that protects me."
Claudio Caserta, the most listened-to radio host in Córdoba, verbally attacked the actress and presenter after she received an award for outstanding female figure for her work on the show "Explosivos": "How can a transvestite be more important than a woman?" the FM100 announcer said. We spoke with her.
#BigKiss for Mariana Gómez: prosecuted for defending herself against the police
This afternoon at Lavalle and Libertad, in Tribunales, dozens of diversity activists and friends accompanied Mariana Gómez, the woman mistreated and arrested by the police last October for kissing his wife Rocío Girat, who today appealed her prosecution.