In photos: #PrideMarch2016 in Buenos Aires

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Thousands marched and danced in the rain, from Plaza de Mayo to Plaza de los Dos Congresos, to celebrate 25 years of an increasingly powerful struggle. The celebration for rights demanded: #StopTransMurders #StopInstitutionalViolence #AntiDiscriminationLawNOW #NotOneLess #TransEmploymentQuota #RecognitionIsReparation #Abortion #FreeMilagroSala #RealEquality #LegalizationOfHomeCultivation #SecularState. [gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="460,459,461,463,462,464,465,467,466,468,469,473,474,470,471,475,472"] Follow us on:…

25 years of pride and politics in the streets

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“Stop institutional violence and the murders of trans people, and we need an anti-discrimination law now!” were the most repeated slogans at the 25th Pride March in Buenos Aires. The downpour didn't dampen the celebration. For nine hours, thousands of people marched and danced, in columns or individually, on floats and under umbrellas, to celebrate…

The dissident column of the #PrideMarch2016

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“Pride in Struggle” was formed out of discontent among a group of activists who do not feel represented by the slogans of the official march. They denounce that the national government’s policies of hunger, austerity, and repression primarily affect the trans and travesti community, due to their lack of access to employment, healthcare, and education. “Loss of…”

#Pride2016: Why we march

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On an afternoon that began with torrential rain in Buenos Aires, thousands of people from organizations for sexual diversity, political parties, and self-organized groups walked, danced, and sang from Plaza de Mayo to Congress. A quarter-century after the first Argentine LGBTI Pride March, Presentes asked: Why…

A #Shout declares a state of emergency for transvestites and trans people

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Presentes reproduces the speech read. From the Argentine trans and travesti movement: We want to denounce how the neoliberal policies of the Macri government are having a devastating impact on the most vulnerable sectors of civil society, primarily transvestites, trans people, and trans migrants in our greater homeland. Faced with this brutal increase in hate crimes, transfemicides/travesticides such as…

“Trans people have a right to a memory”

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María Belén Correa, with the support of photographer Cecilia Estalles Alcón, set out to collect personal photographs and documentation from the Argentine transvestite, transgender, and transsexual community to rescue from oblivion those who, due to repressive laws and discrimination, were erased from social history. Thus, the Memory Archive was born…

Photo chronicle #Campaign #RecognizingIsRepairing

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Within the framework of the #RecognizeIsRepair Campaign, and with the purpose of demanding the immediate parliamentary consideration of bill 2526 “Reparation Regime for Victims of Institutional Violence Based on Gender Identity,” various sexual diversity organizations and self-organized individuals gathered in front of the Argentine National Congress to take a collective photo, to put their bodies on the line…

Ar/Tv trans: building rights from theatre

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They created the cooperative in 2010, and the success of their production of Federico García Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba" took them on tour for five seasons. The first week of December they organize a theater festival in the town of 25 de Mayo, and by 2017 they want to become a production company…