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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.
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The Trans Memory Archive of Argentina
The Trans Memory Archive is an Argentinian project where anecdotes, photos, testimonies and letters from the transvestite, transgender and transsexual community are shared.
The Justice system calls on transvestites and trans people to demand decent housing
The Buenos Aires City Court is calling on transgender and transvestite people to join a collective legal action demanding priority access to housing subsidies. According to the court order, there is a deadline of mid-month to join the petition. The measure stems from a legal filing that…
Salta: Agreement to eliminate law that persecutes the trans community
Representatives of the LGBTI community met with the Human Rights Commission of the Salta Chamber of Deputies. The Commission will push for the elimination of the controversial Article 114 of the Provincial Code of Misdemeanors in the coming days.
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.
Police raided a transvestite-trans organization in La Matanza
Various human rights and LGBTQ+ organizations in Argentina condemned the raid on Tuesday, April 23, at the headquarters of MAL (Anti-Discrimination Liberation Movement), founded by the murdered trans activist Diana Sacayán and currently coordinated by her brother Sasha Sacayán. According to Sacayán's account to Presentes, they were meeting with more than 15 women…
Gay couple kicked out of campsite: “You have to leave because there are children present”
“We were hugging in front of the river, we kissed a few times, and a man who didn't want to identify himself approached us and told us that what we were doing wasn't right.”
New discrimination against trans people at a bowling alley in Jujuy
They were denied entry. The dissemination of this act of discrimination prompted the National Institute Against Xenophobia and Racism (INADI) to intervene.
Bicho and I: Quality HIV/AIDS for everyone
By Lucas Fauno and Jon Amarillo #BichoYYo63 To work, the HIV test is illegal #BichoYYo62: “I’m positive and that has nothing to do with HIV” #BichoYYO61: revealing that someone has HIV without their consent is a crime #BichoYYo60: the condom dilemma #BichoYYo59: Will there be a film about HIV that isn’t a melodrama? #BichoYYo58: Let’s make…
"The race of their lives": a campaign against transphobia in schools
Given the high rates of school dropout among trans people in Latin America, the RIE-LGBTI is launching a regional awareness campaign to highlight the various problems faced by trans children and adolescents inside and outside the classroom.