Around World AIDS Day, Chile saw various events, public actions, and protests led by civil society organizations, particularly LGBTQ+ groups. A recent survey of young people and a study focused on the gay population highlight the lack of condoms and the need for public awareness campaigns…
In Argentina, 120,000 people are living with HIV, and 89 out of every 100 teenagers have never been tested. Legislators and organizations are denouncing shortages of medications, reagents, and condoms from the government. The trans and travesti movement reports that its members are among the hardest hit by these shortages, which have worsened…
By @LucasFauno Photo: Marianella Pietraccone ONE - CAUSE OF DEATH I am exhausted by society's need for me to be "the AIDS patient." My positive body is a comfort to the most fascist right wing. They revel in a Catholic guilt they know how to impose on us. If I am the one who carries the cross, they can walk lightly…
By @LucasFauno Photo: Marianella Pietraccone ONE - CAUSE OF DEATH I am exhausted by society's need for me to be "the AIDS patient." My positive body is a comfort to the most fascist right wing. They revel in a Catholic guilt they know how to impose on us. If I am the one who carries the cross, they can walk lightly…
December 1st is World AIDS Day, and in Argentina, several activities will be held, driven by different groups. ACROSS THE COUNTRY: The Argentine Network of Young People and Adolescents Living with HIV (RAJAP) is launching the “Just Like You” campaign. In different provinces, members will be in public spaces to ask…
Muxes are people from the indigenous community of Juchitán, Mexico, who are born with male biology but identify as female. Integrated into their culture since pre-Hispanic times, they only began dressing as women in the 1960s. Presentes spoke with Amaranta Gómez Regalado, a muxe activist and social anthropologist, who explains how the tensions between the global and the local also affect the struggles for sexual diversity in Latin America.
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