Argentina's Ministry of Security approved the "General Protocol for Personal Searches and Detentions of LGBT Individuals," which will be used by federal police and security forces. Sexual diversity organizations and LGBT activists expressed their condemnation.
By Tomás Balmaceda. The damage to the community caused by Kevin Spacey coming out of the closet due to an accusation of child abuse is very profound.
Quimey Ramos, the trans teacher who made headlines last month for transitioning mid-year, is leading a national network of trans teachers. Now, she has just won another battle: she finally obtained the medical leave that had been denied her for gender reassignment surgery. “What happened to me serves as a lesson for any teacher to have the tools to assert their rights. I’m happy to be in this position here, to empower others and continue empowering ourselves together,” she told Presentes.
A PhD in Literature, a theorist of queer feminism, a member of the Ni Una Menos collective, a writer, a scholar of Néstor Perlongher's work, and an activist, Cecilia Palmeiro says she never fit into the binary and that for a long time she felt like a faggot trapped in a heteronormative regime. *Cat Power, la toma de la tierra* (Cat Power, the Land Takeover) is her first novel.
Letsmar Bravo was attacked by two men who stabbed her in the chest with a piece of glass. “I was standing here peacefully, working, and two guys came and stuck a piece of glass in my chest, and the security guards didn't do anything,” she says in a video shared on social media. In 2016, there were seven homicides of transgender women and 191 reported cases of human rights violations against members of that community.
Jennifer Gabriela Aranda was born with male external genitalia. During puberty, when her body began to develop female, it was discovered that her internal genitalia were female. Her father and a doctor pressured her into testosterone treatment, but she stopped taking it. Today, she is 54 years old and an activist.
October 26th is Intersex Awareness Day, commemorating the first public demonstration by intersex people. It took place in 1996 in Boston, USA, to demand bodily autonomy and protest against birth defects. The term intersex encompasses a wide range of natural variations in the body.
Of the 17,197 news stories monitored in 2016, only thirteen mentioned the LGBT community, and just five cited sources. None reported on the increase in transphobic murders, which, according to figures recorded by LGBTQ+ organizations, reached 16 that year. This is revealed in a report by the Ombudsman for Audiovisual Communication Services.
Zelimkhan Bakaev, a rising star in Russian youth music, has been missing since August 8. He traveled to Chechnya that day for his sister's wedding, which he never reached. LGBTQ+ and human rights organizations believe he was detained and killed during the so-called "anti-gay purges."
“Homosexuality is unnatural and a disease.” That’s what a teacher told her fifth-year high school students at Pablo Apóstol School in Tucumán. The teenagers recorded her, and the video went viral on social media.
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