In Honduras, where 68% of the 9 million people live in poverty and exclusion, deviating from heteronormativity can cost you your life. In the last week, two trans women and a lesbian were brutally murdered, and LGBTQ+ organizations are denouncing these as hate crimes.
Lorena Ortega, 40, survived an attempted murder last night in the city of San Lorenzo. Three men and a cisgender woman threw her to the ground and began beating her with stones and metal rods.
On May 31, 1989, an armed contingent of the MRTA entered the Las Gardenias nightclub in the city of Tarapoto (department of San Martín), in the jungle of Peru, took eight gay and trans people out of the club and shot them dead in the street.
The Movement for Homosexual Integration (Movilh) denounced the suicide of a 16-year-old trans youth in Copiapó, a city in northern Chile. On Thursday, May 23, Matías, as he was known, jumped from the building where he lived.
In Paraguay, a law against all forms of discrimination and a gender identity law are becoming increasingly urgent. People in the LGBTIQ+ community find no protection in the justice system when hate crimes and abuses of power are committed.
Following the impact of the march, several posts began circulating on Facebook declaring May 11 as the Day of the Cuban LGBTIQ Movement, as a "historic day", as "the Stonewall of Cuba".
Being gay, growing up gay, in the 1990s in a small town is complicated. No amount of self-esteem or optimism can overcome the multitude of signals simultaneously telling you that deviating from the norm will be severely punished.
Once again, a Minister of Education in Peru is being questioned, that is, subjected to an interrogation by Congress to clarify some questions about the work carried out by her Ministry.
Through his Twitter account, Congressman and presidential hopeful Carlos Iafigliola of the National Party announced that enough signatures had been gathered to call for a pre-referendum to repeal the Comprehensive Law for Transgender People. “I just received confirmation from the Electoral Court that the signatures we submitted have been validated; we reached 2%…”
The Buenos Aires City Court is calling on transgender and transvestite people to join a collective legal action demanding priority access to housing subsidies. According to the court order, there is a deadline of mid-month to join the petition. The measure stems from a legal filing that…
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