Fernando Adrián Albornoz, 34, is an LGBTI activist. On Monday, as he arrived home in a building in the Barrio Norte neighborhood of Buenos Aires, he was attacked by a neighbor: he pushed him against the elevator mirror and said, “I don’t want to see any faggots or queers in my building. If I see you here again, I’ll kill you.”
On Saturday, February 17, in the early morning, Milagros “Mili” Duarte (37 years old), a trans woman studying Social Work at the National University Arturo Jauretche (UNAJ) and a sex worker in Florencio Varela, was savagely beaten by a client when she tried to collect payment for her services at her home in the San Jorge neighborhood.
The young rugby player from Ciervos Pampa spoke for the first time on Franco Torchia's radio program, "You Can't Live on Love." Still in recovery and on psychiatric leave, he was in the studio at Radio de la Ciudad. Listen to the interview.
By Airam Fernández, from Santiago. Photos: Presentes Archive/Josean Rivera. In Chile, the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh) is the only organization that produces an annual report on the human rights situation focusing on sexual and gender diversity in the country. It has done so since 2002. The study, which corresponds to…
The five assailants who perpetrated the homophobic attack against Jonathan Castellari on December 1st were released from custody. “Judge Baños did not consider that they could obstruct the investigation or flee, which is why preventive detention was not ordered,” Gastón Llopart, the victim's lawyer, told Presentes. However, the assailants were charged with aggravated assault, with the aggravating circumstance of the victim's sexual orientation.
Three young men were arrested for the homophobic attack on Jonathan Castellari, which took place on December 1st in the parking lot of a McDonald's restaurant in Buenos Aires. The National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office No. 49, headed by Paula Asaro, ordered the arrests based on a series of identifications using security camera footage.
Present. The attack took place on Montevideo Street, between Rivadavia Avenue and Bartolomé Mitre Street. There, a group of homophobic men came out of a house and, shouting “degenerate faggots,” attacked three gay men with a hockey stick as they were leaving the march. Within minutes, dozens of people…
By Lucas Gutiérrez Photos: courtesy of JC and SS (image taken minutes before the attack) Jonathan Castellari, the young man hospitalized following a homophobic attack on Friday in Buenos Aires, has already testified before the court and was discharged this afternoon. He remains shocked, convinced that it was not a…
Breaking news [UPDATED December 2 at 2:26 PM] Jonathan Uriel Castellari, 25, went dancing last night at a club in Palermo, Buenos Aires, with his teammate Sebastián Sierra from Ciervos Pampas, the rugby team that fights against homophobia. Afterward, they went to have breakfast at the McDonald's on Avenida Córdoba…
Around 8:30 p.m., half a block from Plaza del Congreso, three men attacked people leaving the demonstration. One of them struck 33-year-old Juan Víctor González in the head with a hockey stick. After midnight, the young man was released from the hospital with seven stitches. The assailant was arrested.
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