Until July 15, the Lesbigaytrans Film Festival is showcasing more than 47 titles in Asunción: feature films, short films, and documentaries with LGBTQ+ themes. Two of the filmmakers from the new generation participating in the festival, Sonia Moura and Bruno A. Comas, told Presentes why they seek to build a Paraguayan LGBTQ+ film scene free of stereotypes. "With film, we can gradually break down barriers."
In response to the transphobic campaign that began circulating in the streets of Santiago and Valparaíso with the #HateBus, the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh) took to the streets with the #DiversityBus. "There was repression by the police, who prevented us from following the #HateBus continuously along its route," they reported from…
SaSa Testa is 31 years old and a non-binary person: gender fluid. Last week, a radio program picked up on their statements to mock their identity, saying it was an illness or a pose. SaSa denounced them and responds in this opinion piece. “We will not rest in the task that one day, although we may not live to see it, we will stop being 'all' and be 'all'. Long live gender anarchy.”
Luis Martínez died on June 25th after jumping from a bridge on the Rosario-Buenos Aires highway. He was the brother of Ángel Correa, a player on the Argentine national team. The media linked his death to drug trafficking; "they didn't care that Luisito jumped from a bridge, fed up with begging for the affection his family didn't give him simply for being himself."
In the midst of the debate over the gender identity law in the Chilean Congress, where trans children have already been excluded, a campaign imported from Spain arrives in Santiago and Valparaíso: a bus circulating with transphobic propaganda and the phrase: "boys have penises, girls have vulvas".
Agencia Presentes is offering an online workshop for journalists working in media outlets in Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, and Chile. Two virtual sessions will be held during the third week of July. Space is limited and applications will be selected.
The ordinance was unanimously approved, and 1% of the more than 8,000 positions in the Municipality of Mar del Plata will be reserved for transgender people over 18 years of age who have completed primary school. It was also established that the rainbow flag will be flown at public buildings four times a year.
Ximena Lorens and Alma Dos Santos are the two young trans women selected to work at the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMP). They are 24 years old and passed the competitive examination for maintenance and security positions with scores of 8 and 9.25, respectively. They are currently undergoing pre-employment and psychophysical examinations.
Charly was murdered on May 13th, but neither the justice system nor the press respected his gender identity. “A woman killed another woman” was the headline in the Salta media. The Salta Women's Multisectoral Group filed a request to be a plaintiff in the case and demand that this murder be classified and investigated as a “trans homicide.”
The must-see photos of a massive march that took to the streets of Santiago, Chile, to celebrate "The Joy of Being Yourself." With children leading the marches, diverse families—a central focus of the #Pride2017 mobilizations worldwide—and young people participated like never before in the celebration. But also present were all those who have been taking to the streets for years to defend equal rights.
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