ADDED ON: 03/24/2020
In são paulo, the cultural center is re-opened
A little more than a year after it was created as the Cultural Itaim, it will be re-opened by the mayor of Sao Paulo on Friday, the 29 with the new name…
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ADDED ON: 03/20/2020
‘A weight off my shoulders’: Argentina’s first openly gay basketball star on coming out
Traveling Argentina and the world as a professional basketball player, Sebastian Vega was living his childhood dream. But carrying a secret deep within was a nightmare. “When I started to feel attracted…
ADDED ON: 03/18/2020
Argentine television gets its first transgender news anchor
Diana Zurco did not attend her high school graduation because she refused to receive a diploma with her birth name. At 17 and considered a boy by school officials, she grew her…
ADDED ON: 03/11/2020
Miami Mayor to Honor Brazil’s Anti-LGBT, Climate-Change-Denying President
Miami politicians, quite reasonably, do not like communists. But Miami Mayor Francis Suarez apparently has no problem with raging right-wingers who hate LGBTQ people, heap praise on dictatorships, defend Hitler admirers, deny…
ADDED ON: 03/07/2020
Brazilians call for boycotts of major companies that support Bolsonaro
Brazilians appalled by Jair Bolsonaro’s bigotry and authoritarianism are calling for boycotts of major companies whose founders or owners support the far-right president. Bolsonaro has often attacked LBGT people, indigenous people, and…
ADDED ON: 03/07/2020
Chile changing: transgender student leader lends voice to renewed protests
As the long southern hemisphere summer holiday draws to an end this month, students in Chile are returning to college - but not always to classes. Many are getting ready to head…
ADDED ON: 02/27/2020
Afro-Feminist Resistance in Brazil’s Carnival
In Southern Brazil, the all women's carnival block Cores de Aide is marching for political resistance and in defense of women, who have been particularly under attack during the far-right presidency of…
ADDED ON: 02/23/2020
Brazilian transgender dancer shatters Carnival parade taboo
When dancer Camila Prins entered Sao Paulo's Carnival parade grounds, a costume of feathers clinging to her sinuous body, she fulfilled a dream of feminine beauty nearly three decades old. Prins says…
ADDED ON: 02/15/2020
Peruvian LGBTQ couples call for marriage equality in symbolic wedding
LGBTQ couples in Peru took part in a symbolic wedding ceremony on Friday in an annual event aimed at calling for marriage equality in the conservative South American nation. Eleven couples exchanged…
ADDED ON: 02/06/2020
Guyana gay-rights manifesto: Seeking support from political parties
Gay rights advocates in Guyana have compiled a manifesto aimed at persuading Guyanese political parties to embrace measures to end repression of the LGBT community. News Room Guyana reported on the proposals…
ADDED ON: 02/05/2020
Guyana urged to end ban on gay sex
A host of foreign governments on Wednesday urged Guyana to decriminalise sexual activity between men and urged protection for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. According to the Criminal Offences…
ADDED ON: 02/02/2020
In Peru, land of wild, corrupt politics, the economy hums right along
Expectations for the Congress Peru elected this week are understandably modest. Nine feuding parties from the center to the extreme right emerged victorious, with the second-largest faction made up of biblical survivalists,…
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