Carla and Cynthia are two young Chilean women who have been sharing their lives on YouTube for almost two years, in a sort of reality show. They met in Santiago in 2014, fell in love quickly, and set off to travel through Europe. They began documenting their trip, thinking their friends would enjoy seeing how their adventure together was unfolding. What happened was that they went viral.
In the Argentine Senate Auditorium, a bill was presented to provide reparations to transgender and transvestite people who suffered institutional violence because of their gender identity. This took place within the framework of the #ReconocerEsReparar (Recognize Is Repair) campaign, promoted by more than 30 LGBTQ+ organizations.
Víctor Doroschuk, an evangelical pastor from San Rafael with over 10,000 followers and a daily column on public radio station LV4, stated on air that homosexuality is a sin that “leads to death.” More than two hundred people signed a complaint filed with the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI), and he is scheduled to attend a conciliation hearing on November 23. He was also reported to the Ombudsman's Office for his remarks.
The Organizing Committee of the 26th LGBTIQ Pride March invites everyone to participate in the event and march this Saturday the 18th at 4 pm and denounces that the Argentine Government did not provide the necessary resources to carry it out.
In the absence of a Gender Identity Law, four universities in Chile have worked on policies to recognize social names in their establishments.
On Thursday, November 16, the bill for reparations for transvestites and trans people who have suffered institutional violence due to their gender identity will be presented in the Senate. (This has been under discussion since the beginning of this year.)
Three people who had been reported missing by their families a few days ago were found murdered Friday night in a swamp in Puerto Cortés, a coastal tourist city on the Caribbean coast in northern Honduras. Yesterday afternoon, also in the department of Cortés, the body of a transgender woman was found in the municipality of San Manuel, María Luisa.
From the trenches of queer guerrilla cinema, Goyo Anchou fires back at conformity and naiveté in gay film production. He defends his hatred of the world as it is, which he takes to extremes in his new film: Heterophobia, an anti-patriarchal rhapsody, is a call for the castration of all men to end oppression.
Rihanna Ferrera Sánchez is a trans woman and a candidate for Congress in the elections to be held on November 26 in Honduras. The activist from the Cozumel Trans Association is currently facing an electoral system that denies her the right to use her gender identity in the election.
Danica Roem, 33, is a journalist and the first transgender legislator in the country. Andrea Jenkins is the first transgender woman of color elected to the Minneapolis City Council. Three other transgender people won seats on school or city boards in the November 7 elections.
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