This occurs within a political and social context where violence against the LGBTI community has noticeably increased. According to the Observatory of Hate Crimes against the LGBT community of the Ombudsman's Office of the City of Buenos Aires and FALGBT, 61 cases of violence were reported in 2017…
These are the 15 good news stories we shared in 2017 in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Paraguay.
The five assailants who perpetrated the homophobic attack against Jonathan Castellari on December 1st were released from custody. “Judge Baños did not consider that they could obstruct the investigation or flee, which is why preventive detention was not ordered,” Gastón Llopart, the victim's lawyer, told Presentes. However, the assailants were charged with aggravated assault, with the aggravating circumstance of the victim's sexual orientation.
In this new installment, during this time of year-end closings and reflections, "Yo" becomes reflective. The comic by Lucas Fauno Gutiérrez and Jon Amarillo tells, in the first person, what it's like to live with HIV.
By Melina Antoniucci Photos: Hebe Amancay Rinaldi Under the slogan "Neither Death nor Imprisonment: Alive, Free, and Proud," the 12th LGBTIQ Pride March was held on Saturday, December 9th, in the city of Mar del Plata, where almost two thousand people took to the streets. The gathering began around 3:00 p.m., with…
The Santiago Parade 2017 was a massive, colorful event, full of glitter and tinged by the electoral climate that Chile is experiencing these days.
He doesn't want to look like a woman. He's a man and a showgirl. Alongside Franco Torchia, he stars in the first LGBTQ revue, "Like Never Before."
The LGBTIQ community arrived at the 26th Pride March with a series of specific slogans for this year, but also with its long-standing demands of the State. What follows is a possible overview of the progress, shortcomings, and ongoing struggles regarding the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, and queer people in Argentina in 2017.
The 26th LGBTIQ+ Pride March mobilized around 200,000 people from Plaza de Mayo to the National Congress in Buenos Aires. With slogans like "Stop the femicides of transvestites, transsexuals, and transgender people, stop institutional violence. Pride to defend the rights we have won," the march began at noon…
GENERAL SPEECH – PRIDE MARCH 2017 Lee Kalim Soria (RITTA): Twenty-six years ago, we gathered for the first time in this square to make diversity visible. We proudly showed ourselves as we were and as we wanted to be. We proudly responded to the shame that they had tried to impose on us for centuries. We also proudly responded to…
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