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Marilina Bertoldi, best Argentine album 2018: "This year a lesbian won"
The social media outburst from the artist from Santa Fe when she found out she is the first woman to win this award in 30 years.
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Marilina Bertoldi, best Argentine album 2018: "This year a lesbian won"
The social media outburst from the artist from Santa Fe when she found out she is the first woman to win this award in 30 years.
“Butterfly Dream”: a support network for lesbians in old age
“Butterfly Dreams” was born in 2017 as an intergenerational space to make visible the reality of lesbian aging. But it is also, its founders say, a political statement.
#Chile The struggle of two lesbian mothers to register their children
A lesbian couple and mothers of twins filed a protection action today in the Santiago Court of Appeals against the Civil Registry for refusing to register the children with both of their surnames and for ignoring their dual motherhood, the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh) reported.
#25N Diverse women from Paraguay took to the streets against gender violence
More than 3,000 rural women, activists, residents of the Bañado Sur neighborhood, lesbians, trans women, cisgender women, students, and sex workers marched through the streets of Asunción, Paraguay, to demand an end to femicides, discrimination, and gender-based violence. They did so under the banner "We will not be silent anymore," on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, November 25th.
Campaign for lesbians deprived of liberty in Paraguay: they are denied the right to intimate visits
Activists in Paraguay are promoting a campaign for the right of incarcerated lesbians to have intimate visits.
Buenos Aires City teacher reports losing her job at a school for being a lesbian
Carolina Perona denounced the authorities of the Madre de los Inmigrantes Institute (IME), in La Boca (CABA) for not hiring her when they found out she is a lesbian.
The writer Patricia Kolesnicov on the lesbophobia at a school against her book
Last week, writer and journalist Patricia Kolesnicov gave a talk at the Neuquén Book Fair about her novel "I Fell in Love with a Vegetarian," a love story between two teenage girls. Students from a religious high school were forced to leave the event by their teachers.
Paraguay: The lesbian love story that was a smash hit abroad but booed in its own country
The film, which tells the story of a lesbian couple from Asunción's high society, garnered four awards at its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, including the Silver Bear for Best Actress for its star, Ana Brun, and the Teddy Award - the festival's queer award.
Two years after the hate crime, Nicole Saavedra is remembered and the prosecutor is relieved of his duties.
Two years after her murder, the crime of Nicole Saavedra Bahamondes, the young lesbian woman killed in June 2016, remains unsolved. Last week, the National Prosecutor's Office informed the family that the investigation will now be led by a woman. This gives them more confidence, her family told Presentes during a ceremony held at the exact spot where her body was found two years ago.