ADDED ON: 03/24/2021
Casa Ruby brings its mission to El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A Salvadoran woman who fled the civil war arrived in D.C. full of dreams and challenges, and after years of effort she and a group of friends…
El Salvador
ADDED ON: 01/09/2021
No Safe Haven for LGBT People in El Salvador
Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele agreed on December 15 to implement an Asylum Cooperative Agreement with the US government. It allows US immigration authorities to transfer non-Salvadoran asylum seekers to El Salvador, instead…
ADDED ON: 01/06/2021
Non-binary person granted asylum in first-of-its-kind ruling
A non-binary person from El Salvador has been granted asylum in the UK in a first-of-its-kind ruling. Arthur Britney Joestar, 29, identified as a gay man when they arrived in the UK…
ADDED ON: 10/09/2020
Rights group denounces Central America anti-LGBTQ violence
Human Rights Watch criticized Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala for failing to stop violence against LGBTQ people in a new report published on Wednesday, which also denounced the United States for denying…
ADDED ON: 08/18/2020
Transgender Salvadoran woman who fled to Guatemala murdered
A 29-year-old transgender woman from El Salvador who fled to Guatemala was murdered on Aug. 1. The woman, who the Blade will call Jazmín in order to protect her family’s security, had…
ADDED ON: 08/09/2020
Gay El Salvador National Assembly candidate makes history
A groundbreaking El Salvador National Assembly candidate hopes to make history as the first openly gay man elected to the country’s legislative body. Erick Iván Ortiz is among the candidates that members…
ADDED ON: 07/31/2020
El Salvador police sentenced in nation’s first trans murder convictions
A court in El Salvador has sentenced three police officers to 20-year prison sentences for the murder of a transgender woman, the nation’s first convictions in a homicide case involving a trans…
ADDED ON: 03/22/2020
Coronavirus Leaves Migrants along Mexico-U.S. Border even More Vulnerable
Jaime Antonio Marin Rocha and his mother, Yolanda Rocha, run Jardín de las Mariposas, a shelter for LGBT migrants in the Mexican border city of Tijuana. Marin told the Washington Blade on…
ADDED ON: 02/11/2020
Two Gay Immigrants Left Everything For Safety In The US. Instead, They Were Sent To Guatemala.
Sitting in a jet streaming toward Guatemala, watching the landscape shift below, Pablo replayed the scenes that had led to this moment. He recalled the day he fled his home in El…
ADDED ON: 01/22/2020
Homosexual and trans migrants ask for help from the LGBT community in Mexico
Central American homosexuals and trans who travel in the migrant caravan this Monday ask for the attention and help of the Mexican LGBT community because of the risk they face and the…
ADDED ON: 01/21/2020
First murder of transgender woman in El Salvador this year reported
A transgender woman was found dead in El Salvador on Jan. 17. The body of Briyit Michelle Alas, 22, was found in the Santa Margarita 2 neighborhood of Ciudad Delgado. She was…
ADDED ON: 01/14/2020
House Democrats to ask ICE to release all transgender immigrants in custody
House Democrats are preparing to ask the Department of Homeland Security to release all transgender immigrants being held at long-term federal immigration facilities. Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley of Illinois is leading the…
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