In Tandil, Buenos Aires province, the Patricia Rasmussen shelter for LGBTI people has been operating since March. It is a self-managed project created to support young people expelled by their families or arriving from other cities, as well as adults who are alone.
They come to politics from activism for the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and transvestites. Meet the pre-candidates running in Argentina's primary elections.
The Rosario justice system is investigating the motive behind the murder of the 35-year-old transgender woman and is awaiting the autopsy results. The prosecutor in charge, Rafael Coria, told Presentes that he has requested information regarding Pamela Tabares's presence at the Women's Police Station.
Until September, the production that brings together two works by the Argentine writer, cartoonist, and playwright Copi can be seen in Buenos Aires. “Eva Perón” and “The Homosexual or the Difficulty of Expressing Oneself” revisit – sometimes with excessive solemnity – two works where body and word resonate around power, confinement, and trans identity.
Two years after the murder of Laura Moyano, hundreds of people marched yesterday in downtown Córdoba to demand justice for Laura and to say #StopTheMurderingOfTransPeople: the State is responsible. LGBTQ+ activists, along with family members and neighbors, marched in the afternoon to the Patio de Olmos, where they read a jointly drafted statement, which we reproduce below.
Yahajaira Falcón is a human rights activist and, for the past two years, an official in the Public Defender's Office of the City of Buenos Aires. She tells us about her experience holding a public office, analyzes the reality of trans and travesti people at risk of homelessness, and how the community is reorganizing itself in the face of increased police repression.
An actress for two decades, Marina Castillo Blanco has forged a path that has taken her from journalism to acting, and from off-Broadway theater to prime-time television in Argentina. Born in Algarrobo, a town of just two thousand inhabitants in the province of Buenos Aires, it was during this same journey that she discovered her sexual identity.
The inclusive clinic at Castro Rendon Hospital in Neuquén provides free surgical procedures and hormone treatments, without requiring health insurance. In addition to guaranteeing rights established in the gender identity law, for many transgender people it is their first access to healthcare.
“The LGBTQ movement in Argentina is one of the most powerful and active on the continent,” writes Gabriela Borrelli Azara. “Why aren’t more gay, lesbian, and trans people on the lists of the main political parties?” she asks. And she proposes to the national political spectrum “a trans quota law, both in the workplace and in Congress, to truly combat transphobic murders and crimes against lesbians and gay men.”
The same week as the #StopTransMurders movement, five trans women and transvestites died due to a lack of access to comprehensive healthcare. Three of them died in less than 24 hours. They were between 29 and 40 years old; three were Argentinian, one Ecuadorian, and one Dominican. We tell you who they were.
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