By Esteban Marchand, from Lima. In Peru, there are no official statistics on hate crimes against LGBTIQ+ people. What exists are partial records, compiled through the initiative of LGBTQ+ groups. This year in Peru, the main violence against LGBTIQ+ people has been perpetrated by state institutions. The group…
This occurs within a political and social context where violence against the LGBTI community has noticeably increased. According to the Observatory of Hate Crimes against the LGBT community of the Ombudsman's Office of the City of Buenos Aires and FALGBT, 61 cases of violence were reported in 2017…
These are the 15 good news stories we shared in 2017 in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Paraguay.
By Airam Fernández, from Santiago. Photos: Presentes Archive/Josean Rivera. In Chile, the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh) is the only organization that produces an annual report on the human rights situation focusing on sexual and gender diversity in the country. It has done so since 2002. The study, which corresponds to…
The public trial for the transphobic murder of Amancay Diana Sacayán will take place in the second half of February 2018. This was reported by the Oral Criminal and Correctional Court No. 4 of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires to the plaintiffs, led by Diana's brother, Sasha Sacayán, and the family.
The five assailants who perpetrated the homophobic attack against Jonathan Castellari on December 1st were released from custody. “Judge Baños did not consider that they could obstruct the investigation or flee, which is why preventive detention was not ordered,” Gastón Llopart, the victim's lawyer, told Presentes. However, the assailants were charged with aggravated assault, with the aggravating circumstance of the victim's sexual orientation.
This past year was a particularly violent one for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transvestite people in Paraguay. While there are no official records of cases of discrimination, assault, and murder—and the country lacks anti-discrimination legislation or laws aggravating circumstances for gender-based violence—LGBT civil society organizations keep their own tallies, which exceeded 400 reports in 2017.
In this new installment, during this time of year-end closings and reflections, "Yo" becomes reflective. The comic by Lucas Fauno Gutiérrez and Jon Amarillo tells, in the first person, what it's like to live with HIV.
Three young men were arrested for the homophobic attack on Jonathan Castellari, which took place on December 1st in the parking lot of a McDonald's restaurant in Buenos Aires. The National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office No. 49, headed by Paula Asaro, ordered the arrests based on a series of identifications using security camera footage.
The murder of Natalia Sandoval, a 35-year-old trans woman, was convicted in connection with another crime. After the verdict was read, her family and friends erupted in applause, and the judge called for silence. Natalia, who worked as a secretary, was found murdered on June 5, 2016. Her body was discovered by a couple who accidentally stopped…
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