In our latest news column on You Can't Live on Love, we talked about INADI's argument in the trial for the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán; about the reparation for a trans woman who survived the dictatorship; and about the interview we did with Joe Lemonge, among other topics.
Two weeks after being sentenced to five and a half years in prison for “attempted homicide” for defending himself against his attackers, Joe Lemonge, a 25-year-old trans man from Entre Ríos, who had long been harassed by three neighbors, arrived in Buenos Aires. With the support of LGBTQ+ activists, he was able to leave Santa Elena, a town of 17,000 inhabitants where he had lived and suffered his entire life.
By Víctor Hugo Robles. Katty Fontey is the president of TravesChile, a senior trans woman actively involved in social and community life. She was born in a time when sexual difference was unthinkable in her town and social class, and so she decided to migrate to the big city, escaping her father's anger and…
One week after Joe Lemonge's conviction, LGBT activists mobilized in front of the National Congress to demand his acquittal and denounce the discriminatory actions of Judge Cristina Lía Vandembroucke and Prosecutor Santiago Alfieri.
By Florencia Capella. Screenplay: Ana Fornaro and María Eugenia Ludueña.
We discussed everything that happened at the seventh hearing of the trial for the transphobic murder of Diana Sacayán. We also covered the hearing that convicted Joe Lamonge, a trans man accused of attempted murder, and the ongoing demands for justice in the province of Entre Ríos, among other topics.
Transvestite and trans activists and militants, feminist groups and sexual dissidents demonstrated this Monday afternoon at the door of the Courts, in Paraná, to demand the acquittal of Joe Lemonge, the young trans man sentenced to five years and six months in prison after being considered "material author of attempted homicide".
In Uruguay, the trans population experiences multiple situations of vulnerability while the comprehensive law for trans people remains in the drawers of Parliament.
Thirty-one months after the quota was approved, the Buenos Aires provincial government still hasn't signed the implementing decree to put it into effect. "Every day that passes without the law being enforced is another night that our female colleagues take to the streets, exposed to violence," said Sasha Sacayán, brother of Diana Sacayán and an activist.
Pía Ceballos, a trans activist from Salta, wrote an open letter from one trans generation to another.
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