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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.
A new comprehensive HIV project was presented in the City of Buenos Aires
On Tuesday, the Comprehensive Bill on HIV, AIDS, viral hepatitis and STIs was presented in the Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, seeking to replace City Ordinance No. 45381.
How to turn a rape news story into an HIV/AIDS misinformation story
For the Argentinian media outlet Crónica, AIDS and HIV are the same thing. From their morbid, dangerous, and willful ignorance, Crónica considers people living with HIV a threat.
People in Argentina denounce the removal of pensions for HIV+ individuals.
HIV+ people who receive Non-Contributory Pensions were ordered to make a Digital Medical Certificate without which they will stop receiving this income.
When Chilean transvestites took to the streets for the first time
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.