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#LivingWithHIV Bicho and I #6 "Happy New Year!"
In this, the sixth installment, we welcome 2018 in Bicho and I mode. With a script by Lucas Fauno Gutiérrez and illustrations by Jon Amarillo, the comic tells what it's like to live with HIV.
#Chile The Gender Identity Law will be discussed in Congress
After the government of Michelle Bachelet sent a letter requesting "immediate discussion", the bill was approved in the Human Rights Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile and will be discussed for the first time in the chamber next Tuesday the 16th.
Alejandra González, the trans councilwoman who won a historic legal battle against discrimination
By Víctor Hugo Robles, The Gay Che. Photo: courtesy of Rodrigo Chandia and TV screenshot. After a long legal battle, in the last days of December 2017, the Supreme Court of Justice of Chile ruled in favor of transgender activist Alejandra González Pino. Meanwhile, the Chilean Parliament is debating…
"Mapuche, dissident and feminist": El Bolsón's Diversity Festival turns 10
The tenth edition of the Diversity Festival in El Bolsón kicks off today and runs until Saturday, January 6. It raises its voice against the stigmatization and persecution of the Mapuche people in southern Argentina and against violence against gender-diverse individuals.
A 34-year-old trans woman was shot and killed in Florencio Varela.
2017 ended with another trans victim, adding to the list of deaths of trans and travesti people in Argentina. Carolina Angulo Paredes, 34, was shot in the chest in the early hours of December 29 in Florencio Varela.
[PHOTO GALLERY] #LGBTIMemory 2017 in pictures
In 2017 we witnessed many stories and news reports. Many of them had a counterpart in the streets, because this year saw numerous marches and protests for the rights of sexual diversity in various cities across Latin America.
#HateCrimes2017 Peru: main violence against LGBTIQ+, from the State
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…
#HateCrimes2017 Drastic increase in street attacks in Argentina
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…
The 15 good news stories we shared in 2017
These are the 15 good news stories we shared in 2017 in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Paraguay.
#HateCrimes2017 Justice, an outstanding debt for LGBT victims in Chile
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…