The University of Buenos Aires reported that today "the Department of Legal Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine removed the accused teacher, after listening to the explanations she gave to the Faculty authorities about the homophobic and discriminatory content provided in a class.
Following the circulation of a highly homophobic slide on social media yesterday, the Student Center of the Faculty of Medicine (CECIM) at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) filed a complaint today with the Department of Violence and Discrimination Reporting to condemn the slide and request an investigation into what occurred during the summer lecture of the legal medicine course on February 15th. They also ask anyone who witnessed the lecture to come to the Nuevo Espacio table on Monday, February 19th, to support the complaint.
The Ykua Poty ecotourism farm, near Asunción, refused entry to a gay couple who wanted to celebrate Valentine's Day lunch there.
In the early hours of Sunday, February 11, Marcelo Mangini was at the Tom Jones bar in Necochea (Buenos Aires province) with friends. They were dancing with a young man and started kissing when, according to Marcelo's account to Presentes, the owner approached them and said, "It's all good with you, but slow down with the kissing if you want to stay." A short time later, two bouncers forcibly removed them from the bar.
Have you seen those family and neighborhood parties we had to endure at some point? The problem was, either we did everything possible to avoid going, or we went and stayed isolated, without dancing. In my case, when I had to go to a birthday party or wedding, I stayed close to my mom, like a cry for help: "Let this shit blow over quickly and let's go home."
The National Ombudsman's Office urged the National Sports Secretariat to guarantee the registration of transgender players on women's hockey teams. The resolution came after a court ruling allowed Jessica Millamán to register and play in the Chubut women's league.
ARGENTINA #HISTORY The story behind a viral tweet: "I'm having a 12-year-old son" #OPINION Let's not have Kevin Spacey and the villains be the only gay characters in this story #VIOLENCE Homophobic attack during the dispersal of the Pride March: one arrested CHILE #PROFILE Gay, Mapuche, and feminist: a young Chilean man questions through art #STORIES…
Víctor Doroschuk, an evangelical pastor from San Rafael with over 10,000 followers and a daily column on public radio station LV4, stated on air that homosexuality is a sin that “leads to death.” More than two hundred people signed a complaint filed with the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI), and he is scheduled to attend a conciliation hearing on November 23. He was also reported to the Ombudsman's Office for his remarks.
Three people who had been reported missing by their families a few days ago were found murdered Friday night in a swamp in Puerto Cortés, a coastal tourist city on the Caribbean coast in northern Honduras. Yesterday afternoon, also in the department of Cortés, the body of a transgender woman was found in the municipality of San Manuel, María Luisa.
The Gender Equality Yes coalition emerged in response to the Ministry of Education's measure. They warned that prohibiting this content would prevent students from accessing comprehensive sexuality education.
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