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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…
The trial for the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán will be in February 2018
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 people arrested for the homophobic attack on rugby player Jonathan Castellari have been released.
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.
#HateCrimes2017: More than 400 reports of violence against LGBT people in Paraguay
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.
#LivingWithHIV Bicho and I #5: "Nine years with Bicho"
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.
Five young men are under arrest for homophobic attack on Jonathan, a rugby player for Ciervos Pampas.
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 transvestite: the two accused were sentenced to life imprisonment.
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…
Argentina: An LGBTI center opens in the city of Santa Fe
Present were Marina Quinteros, a prominent trans figure in the city, who, along with trans activist Noelia Quinteros, will be in charge of managing the space during the afternoon. [READ ALSO: The trans employment quota incorporated the first trans worker in the country in Venado Tuerto] Esteban Paulón, Undersecretary of Sexual Diversity Policies, said that with the opening…
“I want to break free from Christmas”
By Violeta Alegre Illustration: Nelson Evergreen I see how most people, yes, most, even fellow feminists, rush to await the white-bearded LORD, engaging in concrete acts of unnecessary consumption, of selfish fireworks that disregard the rest of the species. These explosions, outside of these dates, are repressive attacks, or wars. But assimilationism…