For two months, several people approached the program to request information and register. Now the second stage begins, where five will be selected after the development of professional profiles. The goal for 2017 is to have 10 transgender people incorporated into the program.
Sasha Sacayán, a leader of the Anti-Discrimination Liberation Movement (MAL), an organization for the rights of transvestite and trans people founded by her sister Diana, says: “We were able to observe the operation as a whole. There were no disturbances from those of us who were there. Nothing was broken. The media focused on cheap sensationalism when the ‘provocative fanatic’ Ignacio Agustín Montangut appeared. He was neither that fanatical nor that innocent. We managed to remove him from the scene so he wouldn’t become a victim.”
At the close of her visit to Argentina, Vitit Muntarbhorn held a press conference at the UN headquarters in Buenos Aires and previewed her report on the situation of the LGBTI population in the country. While she praised the legislative progress, she expressed concern about the violation of the rights of the trans population, the invisibility of lesbians, and institutional violence.
Thousands of women took to the streets in a historic day for the mobilizations of recent years. There was also a protest organized by various groups outside the prosecutor's office to demand justice for the murders of trans women. At the close of the main event, two laws were called for: an anti-discrimination law and a gender identity law.
The voices and stories that inspired lesbians, bisexuals, trans people, and transvestites to join a historic march. Sexual diversity groups added their demands. "We are striking in defense of sexual and gender diversity," stated the #NiUnaMenos document read at the closing of the event in Plaza de Mayo.
“The police threw us to the ground and kept saying, ‘Kid, kid, stay calm,’” said Amanda, one of the lesbians beaten and illegally detained by the police. Some were taken to the 1st Police Station, others to the 4th Precinct station, at Zabaleta and Chutro. All were released this morning.
“In all the articles that came out, they are lumped together with women, as if misogyny and lesbophobia were synonymous. As if being a lesbian didn't matter, as if the very lesbian words and expressions of our comrades weren't important,” says lawyer Luciana Sánchez, one of the defenders of…
Seven years after the hate crime against Pepa Gaitán, Lesbian Visibility Day was celebrated with its own festival in Buenos Aires. This photo essay shows how the lesbian movement celebrated, demanded, and made its voice heard. Photos: Ariel Gutraich. With the slogans "celebrate our existence and make it visible" and "freedom…
For Pepa Gaitán, for Higui de Jesús, for the everyday and silenced violence, hundreds of lesbians participated in a festival with music, poetry, and a manifesto on Lesbian Visibility Day. They denounced street attacks and the arrests of six members of the Ni Una Menos Collective. And they called for a march this afternoon in their own column during the International Women's Strike.
Three women from LGBTQ+ groups in Paraguay share their personal experiences of why and how they are participating in the International Women's Strike. What are their expectations regarding the impact of #8M? By María Domínguez, from Asunción. Photos: Mariluz Martin and Jess Insrán Pérez. Jess Insfrán Pérez is 23 years old, a photographer, a lesbian, and…
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