Mariana Solange Gómez was kissing her wife, Rocío Girat, near the Constitución subway station on Line C. Suddenly, Mariana was arrested by the Buenos Aires City Police.
Noemí Echaniz lived on the streets for several years. She was on the verge of becoming homeless again when the Buenos Aires City government cut off her housing subsidy. At 41 years old and with a health problem, this trans woman filed a lawsuit. The judge ordered the city government to provide her with “housing that guarantees her constitutional rights to housing, health, and dignity.”
The Frida Integration Center provides shelter to transgender, transvestite, and cisgender women experiencing homelessness in Buenos Aires. One of its coordinators, Florencia Montes Paez, spoke with Presentes about the relationship between gender, sexuality, class, and the right to housing. Today, this center has twice as many people on its waiting list as last year.
The activists were detained for 12 hours on March 7. A prosecutor accused them of spray-painting a church and two banks in the Almagro neighborhood of Buenos Aires. They had requested the dismissal of the case, but yesterday the defense's request was rejected.
In less than 48 hours, two young people were physically attacked because of their sexual orientation in very close proximity to each other in the City of Buenos Aires. Both incidents occurred in the early morning hours. Presentes consulted the records of the Buenos Aires LGBT Ombudsman's Office: reports of attacks and human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity increased dramatically in 2016.
Lisa Kerner is one of the mentors and hosts of Casa Brandon, a crucial hub for LGBTQ+ artivism in Buenos Aires. Her exhibition-installation, 'Todo liso, mi familia yo-yo' (All Smooth, My Yo-Yo Family), explores her own biography through pieces, drawings, and paintings, and can be seen at the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center.
On Saturday, February 18, two LGBTQ+ couples were attacked in very close proximity to each other in Buenos Aires. Both attacks were motivated by homophobia, lesbophobia, and transphobia and occurred in broad daylight. In addition to physical violence, insults and the indifference of passersby were common elements in both incidents.
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