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I'm on HIV+ treatment, I took a headache pill and almost didn't make it
A few days ago I took a pill for a headache. I didn't know that the drug ergotamine mixed with my antiretroviral medication for HIV creates a severely toxic mixture.
Trans Dad and Mom: The Story of the Argentine Family That Became a Comic Book
The life of Karen Bruselario and Alexis Taborda, the first Argentine trans man to gestate his daughter, is part of the Revealed Stories Collection of Aguará Editorial Collective.
Report: At least 4 LGBTI people are murdered every day in Latin America
The report includes statistical data on murders committed in nine countries: Colombia, Mexico, Honduras, Peru, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Paraguay, Bolivia during January 2019 and June 2019.
HIV: In addition to medication shortages, there was police and media violence
After 1 p.m., a police cordon violently pushed us with their shields. Later, the media spread misinformation. The violence against people living with HIV continues, #NoMoreTime
They denounce shortages of HIV medication: “It’s a critical situation”
People living with HIV report that some antiretroviral medications are not being dispensed in public hospitals in Argentina.
The Buenos Aires court ruled in favor of a transgender municipal worker
By Rosario Marina. It took the justice system three and a half years to tell V, a trans worker, in complicated legal phrases, two words: you were right. In 2013, V began working as an administrative assistant in the municipality of La Plata, Buenos Aires province. In May 2015, when Julio Garro was in the midst of his campaign for…
Guatemala adds two gay congressmen: progress and impacts
What impact might this increased visibility of sexual dissidence have on the LGBT+ community in a conservative country like Guatemala?
Night of the Gardenias: the massacre of LGBT people in a Peruvian nightclub
On May 31, 1989, an armed contingent of the MRTA entered the Las Gardenias nightclub in the city of Tarapoto (department of San Martín), in the jungle of Peru, took eight gay and trans people out of the club and shot them dead in the street.
Communication workshop on coverage with an LGBT+ perspective
Photo: Titi Nicola | CC-BY-SA-4.0 Presentes Agency, Wikimedia Argentina, and Periódicas—a feminist media outlet—are inviting people to participate in an LGBT+ edit-a-thon and a workshop for students, journalists, and communicators in the city of Santa Fe: “How to Cover Sexual Diversity Issues from a Rights-Based Perspective.” The activities will take place on Friday, May 31st…
What is sexual orientation? And gender identity?
Sexual orientation is the physical, emotional, erotic, affective, and spiritual attraction that a person feels for another, whether of the same or different sex. Gender identity is the lived experience of an individual's gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex assigned at birth.