ADDED ON: 11/19/2020
Trans People at Risk in Honduras
William Alejandro Martínez, a trans man from Honduras, stood up for his rights when military police officers stopped him in Comayagüela in May 2019 and asked to see his identity card. They…
Honduras
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: 09/29/2020
Journalist who condemned anti-LGBTQ violence, corruption in Honduras murdered
A journalist in Honduras who publicly condemned anti-LGBTQ violence has been killed. CNN en Español reported two men on a motorbike shot Luis Almendares three times in Comayagua, a city that is…
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: 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…
ADDED ON: 01/01/2020
How the U.S. immigration system nearly tore this LGBTQ couple apart
After living as an openly gay couple in Honduras, Oscar Juarez Hernandez and Darwin Garcia Portillo thought the United States was the last place where their inability to get married might get…
ADDED ON: 11/30/2019
Latin American Human Rights Lawyers Join Forces for LGBT Rights
In a gathering in Bogota, Colombia on Nov. 19, 40 human rights lawyers from across Latin America launched an innovative “Red Litigio LGBT” – an LGBT Litigation Network – in order to…
ADDED ON: 11/01/2019
ICE ALLEGEDLY DETAINING LGBT ASYLUM SEEKER IN DEFIANCE OF COURT RULING
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have allegedly been detaining an LGBT asylum seeker in defiance of a federal judge's ruling. Darwin Garcia Portillo and his partner Oscar Juarez Hernandez came to…
ADDED ON: 08/11/2019
LGBTQ asylum seekers persecuted at home and in U.S. custody
With more than 800,000 migrants currently applying for asylum in the U.S., a growing number of immigrants rights groups are calling attention to the plight of LGBTQ people, many of whom are…
ADDED ON: 08/10/2019
LGBT+ murders at ‘alarming’ levels in Latin America – study
Four LGBT+ people are murdered every day in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to "alarming" new research released on Thursday by a regional network of gay rights groups. At least 1,300…
ADDED ON: 07/17/2019
Transgender murders in Honduras stoking fear of backlash against LGBT rights
The murder of three transgender women in Honduras this month has raised fears that a push for LGBT rights in the country has prompted a backlash. Bessy Ferrera, a 40-year-old LGBT rights…
ADDED ON: 07/13/2019
Popular trans television presenter gunned down in Honduras
Beloved transgender television presenter, Santiago Carvajal, died on Saturday (6 July)in Honduras after she was shot on Friday. She died at Mario Catarino Rivas Hospital in San Pedro Sula, the Central American…
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