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#MyPrideIS: Twitter was filled with hundreds of proud LGBTI experiences
At Presentes, we launched a campaign to ask our community to share what makes them proud to be LGBTQ+—and more! We received hundreds of inspiring responses. Here are a few.
Carla and Cynthia: "We want to change the way people see lesbians"
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.
“The State was responsible for the violence in our life stories”
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.
#Mendoza On public radio, a pastor called for people to report homosexuals: he was the one reported.
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 Government denied a venue to the XXVI LGBTIQ Pride March
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.
Four Chilean universities recognize the chosen name of transgender students
In the absence of a Gender Identity Law, four universities in Chile have worked on policies to recognize social names in their establishments.
#RecognizingIsRepairing: pension project for transvestites and trans victims of police violence
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.)
Shock in Honduras: Four LGBT people murdered
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.
Goyo Anchou: “LGBT cinema is full of bourgeois stories”
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.
Honduras: The trans candidate fighting against discrimination and violence
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.