Ayelén Gómez was murdered. She was found under a grandstand at the Lawn Tennis Club in Tucumán. Her mother identified her body, which was beaten and showed signs of asphyxiation. In 2012, she had filed a police report. Afterward, she moved to Buenos Aires, where she studied at the Mocha Celis Transgender Popular High School. She returned to her home province last year.
She is 35 years old and a spokesperson for Transgender Women for Change, one of the first trans and travesti organizations in the country, located in the city of Talca (central Chile). An activist, she conducts workshops on HIV/AIDS and the rights of the trans population. She is the first trans public servant hired by the government nationwide, working in the Regional Ministerial Secretariat (Seremi) of the Maule Region.
Paula Arraigada is the first trans woman to be elected to the Women's Parliament of the Buenos Aires City Legislature. An LGBT rights activist, she is also a pre-candidate in the primary elections.
In Tandil, Buenos Aires province, the Patricia Rasmussen shelter for LGBTI people has been operating since March. It is a self-managed project created to support young people expelled by their families or arriving from other cities, as well as adults who are alone.
Using fictional names, real details, and settings, Fichados: Crónicas de amores clandestinos (Spotted: Chronicles of Clandestine Loves) recovers silenced stories and recounts the brutal persecution of the Buenos Aires police intelligence services against sexual diversity. It raises further debates about LGBT memory and repression.
They come to politics from activism for the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and transvestites. Meet the pre-candidates running in Argentina's primary elections.
The Rosario justice system is investigating the motive behind the murder of the 35-year-old transgender woman and is awaiting the autopsy results. The prosecutor in charge, Rafael Coria, told Presentes that he has requested information regarding Pamela Tabares's presence at the Women's Police Station.
The music video for "Como me gusta a mí" by Argentine reggaeton artist Romina Bernardo (aka Chocolate Remix) was removed from YouTube and her account was blocked. The social media platform offered no explanation, and the Argentine artist denounces the action as "lesbophobic, sexist, and misogynistic censorship."
Until September, the production that brings together two works by the Argentine writer, cartoonist, and playwright Copi can be seen in Buenos Aires. “Eva Perón” and “The Homosexual or the Difficulty of Expressing Oneself” revisit – sometimes with excessive solemnity – two works where body and word resonate around power, confinement, and trans identity.
Pamela Tabares was 35 years old and lived in extremely vulnerable conditions. On Tuesday night, she went to work in the red-light district and never returned: she was murdered with at least five gunshots. The Prosecutor's Office is investigating the motive. It is known that she had unsuccessfully sought state assistance. Friends and activists remember her.
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