Report by Gabriela Zampedri: Unlike in 2017, when Eva Analía "Higui" de Jesús spent her birthday, June 7, in the Magdalena prison—she was released days later, on June 13—this time she celebrated her 44th birthday with an open-air festival, accompanied by her mother, family, friends, and activists.
The case of Nicole Saavedra Bahamondes, a young lesbian murdered almost two years ago, is stalled. Her family met with the National Prosecutor in a meeting attended by lesbian and feminist organizations.
Dissident sexualities made their presence felt at the fourth Argentine feminist demonstration #NiUnaMenos that took place in downtown Buenos Aires.
The Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh-Biobío) reported that a man carried out an arson attack on the Frida Kahlo Lesbian Social Club, a nightclub in the city of Chillán frequented by lesbians.
Florencia B. (27 years old) and Irupé B. (23 years old) are girlfriends. On Friday the 20th, they were assaulted by the owner of a supermarket in Morón, in Greater Buenos Aires, while shopping. “He insulted us in front of everyone and nobody did anything,” one of the women said. The couple filed a complaint with the Morón Prosecutor's Office No. 2 and with the National Institute Against Discrimination, Racism and Xenophobia (INADI).
Trans activist Lara Bertolini is calling for the inclusion of non-heteronormative identities in the ongoing debate to decriminalize abortion. "The presentations made by the Women's Movement approach it from a binary feminist perspective, because they don't include lesbians, pregnant people, or trans men," she says.
By Ana Fornaro Photos: Agencia Presentes Mariana Gómez, assaulted by police while kissing her wife Rocío Girat last October, was indicted by investigating judge María Dolores Fontbona de Pombo and is now headed to trial for "resisting authority and assault." The judge accused her of "hitting…
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I never heard anyone shout “hetero” as an insult. Now, “faggot” is commonplace. All of us who distanced ourselves from the privileges of heterosexuality learned to transform insults into pride. Those of us who pulse with a rhythm that clashes with the choreography of heteronormativity were disqualified from that board of the “Game of Normal Life” and had to learn to survive by other rules. So today, when the National Secretariat of Human Rights tweets that “heterosexuality is part of sexual diversity,” the scars left on me by not being that heterosexual, and, according to the government, diverse sexuality, still burn.
Lesbian, bisexual, and trans women were highly visible at the #8M march through downtown Asunción. They were among the more than 6,000 women who demanded equal pay and recognition of domestic work and caregiving, and who protested against harassment and workplace violence, among other demands.
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