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"Bicho and I", the comic strip that tells in the first person what it is like to live with HIV

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes December 1, 2017

"Hi! We're Fauno and Bicho. We've been living together since 2008. Bicho is a strain of HIV and he lives with me." This is how "Bicho and I" begins, a comic strip that tells, in the first person and without prejudice, what it's like to live with the virus. Written by Lucas Fauno Gutiérrez and illustrated by Jon Amarillo, it aims to bring a less solemn tone to a debate that, sometimes, due to its careful handling, becomes invisible or detached from reality.

Congress blocked the new HIV, viral hepatitis and STI law: it lost its parliamentary status

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes November 30, 2017

This week marked the deadline for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies to consider the HIV and STI (Sexually Transmitted Infection) bills. Due to the lack of response from legislators, both bills lost their parliamentary status and are back to square one. The initiatives sought to legislate on social, labor, and human rights issues.

Trans Memory Archive: “This one left, this one was killed, this one died”

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes November 30, 2017

By the Trans Memory Archive: curatorial text for the exhibition to be held on December 2nd at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center, formerly ESMA, Buenos Aires. The Trans Memory Archive is a family reunion. It arises from the need to embrace each other again, to look at each other again, to reconnect after more than…

#DiverseFamilies “We are already visible: there are open minds, we need to open hearts”

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes November 29, 2017

For the fifth consecutive year, the Córdoba Meeting of Homoparental and Diverse Families took place. This time in the town of Agua de Oro, in the Sierras Chicas region.

Trans daughter of “hate bus” leader: “I’m making this public to support other people”

BRIEF-oldBy Agencia Presentes November 28, 2017

or what they call “gender ideology.” Her daughter Carla will begin the legal process to officially change her gender on her identity registration, and the Movement for Homosexual Liberation (Movilh) is supporting her throughout the process. Today's press conference was held alongside Rolando Jimenez, Movilh's human rights director. [READ ALSO: The…

Another trans woman dies in prison: she is the fourth in 2017

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes November 28, 2017

Photos: Facebook and Otrans Argentina. Damaris Becerra Jurado died in the early hours of November 26th at Penitentiary Unit No. 32 in Florencio Varela. Her death is the fourth of a trans woman in prison this year. Her name joins a list that includes two other detainees in the…

The daughter of the woman behind the "hate bus" is trans and will change her legal gender.

BRIEF-oldBy Agencia Presentes November 27, 2017

[READ ALSO: The bus that attacks transgender children arrives in Chile] The bus is part of the global #HandsOffMyChildren campaign, which opposes what its members call “gender ideology” and its integration into school curricula. The Chilean bus says: “Nicolás has the right to a father and a…”

LGBTI activists from the region met in Guatemala: "We are facing a scenario that alarms us"

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes November 27, 2017

More than 80 activists from the region gathered from November 16-19, 2017, in Guatemala City for the VII Regional Conference of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association for Latin America and the Caribbean (ILGALAC). Focusing on the rise of fundamentalist groups that reinforce hate speech through what they call “gender ideology,” the meeting provided a space for reflection and the exchange of strategies for building a future of freedom, equality, and solidarity.

Massive march for LGBTI rights stirs up the election climate

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes November 26, 2017

The Santiago Parade 2017 was a massive, colorful event, full of glitter and tinged by the electoral climate that Chile is experiencing these days.

Hate crime: Nicole Saavedra's family marched and demanded a change of prosecutor

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes November 25, 2017

By Airam Fernández, from Santiago, Chile. Thirty cities in Chile joined in commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is observed today. Part of the family of Nicole Saavedra Bahamondes, the young lesbian woman who was murdered in June 2016, traveled from the town of…