In April 1973, a group of young transvestites took to the streets, marking the beginning of the intense struggles for diversity in Chile. This was met with total rejection from the press in a politically turbulent climate. “Faggots flaunted their sexual deviance in the Plaza de Armas,” headlined the newspaper Clarín.
By Víctor Hugo Robles. Aliro Andrade Almonacid, a 64-year-old gay chef, was found dead in his home in Puerto Montt, southern Chile, on March 7, murdered by blows and strangulation. According to his family, the main suspect in Aliro's murder is a person who lived at the victim's house for a few days and…
Carolina is currently suffering from internal bleeding and a skull fracture as a result of the severe blows she received from a group of men.
The response was that, according to instructions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Santiago, Chile, no consulate can process visas if the applicant's medical examination shows a positive result.
After five years, the courts provided Miguel Ángel with redress for the negligence of the El Salvador Hospital and the Metropolitan East Health Service (SSMO), who lost his first HIV test. Ángel lived for three years without knowing he was HIV-positive and came very close to death.
The new figures released by the Ministry of Health of the Government of Chile indicate that the upward trend in positive notifications - particularly among the younger population - continues to rise steadily.
Chilean courts have found the killers of Marcelo Lepe, a young man shot dead in 2016 on the streets of the San Bernardo district, guilty. Juan Carlos Altamirano and Constanza Opazo Rondanelli were convicted of "simple homicide" with the aggravating circumstance of discrimination based on sexual orientation.
By Víctor Hugo Robles. Katty Fontey is the president of TravesChile, a senior trans woman actively involved in social and community life. She was born in a time when sexual difference was unthinkable in her town and social class, and so she decided to migrate to the big city, escaping her father's anger and…
It will be inaugurated on March 31st at the General Cemetery in Santiago, Chile. It is an initiative of TravesChile and the International Trans Fund, which focuses on transgender people living in extreme poverty and without family support.
In 1988, without being on the immediate agenda of the democratic parties and in the midst of a complex context of political negotiations between democratic civilians and coup-plotting military officers, the demands of the LGBTI movement emerged.
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