Emilia Schneider is the first trans woman elected to Congress in Chile. She is 25 years old and received one of the highest vote counts. Camila Musante and Marcela Riquelme, LGBTQ+ activists, have also joined the Chamber of Deputies.
The group Yo Si Te Creo (I Do Believe You) organized a virtual trial to challenge the judicial processes that delay the development and resolution of cases involving child and adolescent abuse. They also drafted a list of collective demands.
Every November 20th, International Transgender Day of Remembrance or Trans Memory Day is commemorated, a day to honor all trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people who were murdered because of prejudice.
"Like the flower, voices of contemporary Colombian queer poetry" collects 50 texts from 30 authors who share their own experience about the queer experience in Colombia.
Violence against lesbians, lesbophobia, takes many forms, but its impact is undeniable. From direct violence to invisibility, lesbians confront one of the most deeply ingrained social norms: heterosexuality.
Gabriela Cabrera, a 23-year-old trans woman, died under circumstances that have yet to be clarified by the Paraguayan justice system. The initial hypothesis put forward by the forensic doctor was that it was a suicide, but her colleagues at Casa Diversa are demanding a thorough investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office and that justice be served.
The cooperative sustains ten jobs in the emblematic lands of carnival where the sewing workshop is a fundamental tool for inclusion and training.
The most repeated slogans were social and legal equality, an end to violence, parental rights for same-sex parent families, free abortion, and a comprehensive trans law.
The Esquel court acquitted Gloria Colihueque Catriman, a Mapuche-Tehuelche human rights defender, and her uncle Gregorio. The judge acknowledged that there was no evidence against them and that, since the justice system did not listen to them, they acted in defense of the territory they inhabit.
Luis Alberto Montes and Oscar Ramos had offered him a job as a waiter at an event. That was the last time anyone heard from the 22-year-old trans man from San Vicente.
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