In Paraguay, the "Rohendu" hotline (Guarani for "I hear you") offers support and guidance to the LGBTI community experiencing discrimination, as well as to their families and friends. "It's not normal to be mistreated," emphasize the videos promoting the hotline. It operates Monday through Friday and is free to access from any phone.
On Saturday, February 18, two LGBTQ+ couples were attacked in very close proximity to each other in Buenos Aires. Both attacks were motivated by homophobia, lesbophobia, and transphobia and occurred in broad daylight. In addition to physical violence, insults and the indifference of passersby were common elements in both incidents.
In Paraguay, Yren Rotela became the spokesperson for the trans community to call for the International Women's Strike on March 8th. Who is this activist who challenged the UN's report on women, took her case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and is running for Congress in 2018?
Around twenty men attacked trans activist Alessandra Luna and two companions in Glew, Buenos Aires Province. They beat them for twenty minutes and stole all their belongings. Today they expanded their complaint at Provincial Prosecutor's Office 20 in Lomas de Zamora. "We were terrified by the morbid curiosity of those who were watching and filming," Luna told Presentes.
A Chilean trans leader, icon of the transvestite struggle in Latin America, poet, and social worker, Claudia Rodríguez has an activist career that began in the 1990s. In this video, filmed between Santiago and Buenos Aires, she talks about her childhood, her identity, and the current situation of the trans population in Chile.
Journalist, literature graduate, media personality, and sharp analyst, Franco Torchia is known for taking himself out of context and seeing what happens. In this interview, this "oddball," as he calls himself, shares his opinions on television, the Church, coming out, and the anti-patriarchal #NiUnaMenos movement.
In the same week that the equal marriage bill was introduced, the first public hearing to advocate for and debate the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people was held yesterday. Congresswoman Indira Huilca, a feminist from the Broad Front and a leading advocate for the LGBTQ+ rights agenda, opened this historic afternoon, which included several discussion panels. "We want to bring the LGBTQ+ agenda to the Bicentennial," she said.
The demand for justice for Eva Analía Higui de Jesús—attacked for being a lesbian and imprisoned for homicide—was the central theme of the latest Permanent Lesbian Assembly, held this week in Buenos Aires. It was agreed to join the March 8th #NiUnaMenos march, International Women's Day, with a lesbian contingent.
Talented and understated, this composer and performer of "light music" moved to Mar del Plata almost 15 years ago to develop her art and turn her life around. After two albums, several shows, and a self-made career, her adopted city rewarded her with the summer's top prize. For…
More than a year and a half after its enactment, the Diana Sacayán Transgender Employment Quota Law remains unregulated. Officials from the Human Rights Secretariat of the Province of Buenos Aires informed the group of organizations that the implementing decree has entered its "final stage," prior to Governor María Eugenia Vidal's signature.
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