Women who are part of Lesbianes Autoconvocades por la Masacre de Barracas (Self-Organized Lesbians for the Barracas Massacre) recount what that brutal crime meant and how it impacted activism.
They were people who openly displayed their identity: feminist activists, a couple walking hand in hand, another living together, and one of them even returning from a meeting prior to the mass march on Saturday, February 1.
A man who had already been harassing this family and other lesbians in Cañuelas, Buenos Aires province, set fire to their house. "Hate speech breeds violence. This is further proof."
The lesbian couple who died after a man set them on fire in a family hotel had already received threats. The plot behind the crime and attack against Pamela, Mercedes, Andrea, and Sofía is a housing crisis and hate speech.
A neighbor attacked two lesbian couples and started a fire in a boarding house in Barracas.
The murder of Lucio Dupuy, a child, by his caregivers fueled the proliferation of lesbian-transphobic discourse and misinformation.
This is the seventh known attack against lesbians in Mexico so far in 2022.
Activists celebrate in the streets of San Martín. The prosecution had requested a 10-year prison sentence.
“In the circumstances she experienced, I would have done the same,” said Nora Cortiñas at the entrance to the San Martín courthouse.
Chronicle of the first day of the trial against Higui de Jesús, accused of homicide for defending herself against her attackers.
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