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Added on: 03/20/2020

‘A weight off my shoulders’: Argentina’s first openly gay basketball star on coming out

03/19/2020

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…

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Added on: 03/18/2020

Argentine television gets its first transgender news anchor

03/17/2020

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…

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Added on: 03/11/2020

Miami Mayor to Honor Brazil’s Anti-LGBT, Climate-Change-Denying President

03/10/2020

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…

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Added on: 03/07/2020

Brazilians call for boycotts of major companies that support Bolsonaro

03/05/2020

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…

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Added on: 03/07/2020

Chile changing: transgender student leader lends voice to renewed protests

03/06/2020

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…

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Added on: 02/27/2020

Afro-Feminist Resistance in Brazil’s Carnival

02/26/2020

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…

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Added on: 02/23/2020

Brazilian transgender dancer shatters Carnival parade taboo

02/22/2020

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…

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Added on: 02/15/2020

Peruvian LGBTQ couples call for marriage equality in symbolic wedding

02/14/2020

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…

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Added on: 02/06/2020

Guyana gay-rights manifesto: Seeking support from political parties

02/05/2020

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…

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Added on: 02/05/2020

Guyana urged to end ban on gay sex

02/04/2020

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….

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Added on: 02/02/2020

In Peru, land of wild, corrupt politics, the economy hums right along

02/01/2020

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…

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Added on: 01/31/2020

Bolsonaro makes former soap star Brazil’s new culture secretary

01/30/2020

A former soap opera star, Regina Duarte, has agreed to become Brazil’s culture secretary, replacing the previous secretary who was fired for giving a speech that used…

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Added on: 01/25/2020

Scandal overshadows Peru election’s focus on gender equality

01/24/2020

Scandals involving domestic violence and marital infidelity have overshadowed the campaign to elect a new congress in Peru, in which gender equality and women’s rights have been…

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Added on: 01/23/2020

GLENN GREENWALD ON BRAZIL’S CHARGES AGAINST HIM

01/22/2020

On Tuesday, Brazilian prosecutors charged the journalist Glenn Greenwald with “cybercrimes” as part of what the government claims was his role in a “criminal organization.” They allege…

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Added on: 01/22/2020

Ecuador’s LGBT+ community seen suffering deadliest year in a decade

01/21/2020

Last year was the deadliest in at least a decade for gay and transgender people in Ecuador, campaigners have said, citing a possible backlash against new laws…

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Added on: 01/16/2020

Trans Activist Runs for Congress in Peru

01/15/2020

Gahela Tseneg Cari Contreras is running for Congress in Peru, but the name she has gone by her entire adult life will apparently not be on the…

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Added on: 01/11/2020

Brazil top court rejects attempt to remove LGBT movie from Netflix

01/10/2020

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a lower court’s decision to remove a Netflix comedy that displayed Jesus Christ in a gay relationship. Minister Dias Toffoli stated…

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Added on: 01/10/2020

Brazil issues new rules, lowers age for gender reassignment surgery

01/09/2020

Brazil’s independent medical regulator announced new rules for treating transgender patients on Thursday, including lowering the age when trans people can have gender reassignment surgery to 18…

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Added on: 01/04/2020

‘The Periphery Has Potency’ Festival Unites Art and Literature in the Peripheries at the Galpão Bela Maré

01/03/2020

On December 17, the Galpão Bela Maré arts center held the Periferia Tem Potência (The Periphery Has Potency) festival in partnership with the Favelas Observatory, the Instituto…

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Added on: 01/03/2020

Uruguay, the most LGBT-friendly country in Latin America

01/02/2020

Uruguay is ranked 18th in the world in the LGBT + Danger Index ranking that evaluates the friendliest and most dangerous destinations for the lesbian, bisexual and…

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Added on: 01/01/2020

Rio police ID suspect in attack on Netflix gay Jesus filmmakers

12/31/2019

Police in Rio de Janeiro have identified one of the people responsible for a gasoline bomb attack targeting satirists behind a Christmas program on Netflix that some…

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Added on: 12/26/2019

Brazilian comedy group hit by Molotov cocktails after film on ‘gay Jesus’

12/25/2019

Molotov cocktails were thrown at the headquarters of Brazilian comedy group Porta dos Fundos in Rio de Janeiro on Christmas Eve, weeks after the group launched a…

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Added on: 12/23/2019

Brazil: Bolsonaro in homophobic outburst as corruption scandal swirls

12/20/2019

Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has launched a homophobic attack on a journalist from one of the country’s top newspapers in an apparent bid to divert attention…

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Added on: 12/18/2019

A guide to local favorites in Chapinero

12/17/2019

A hip, student-driven area known as Bogota’s gay neighborhood, Chapinero is in constant motion — by the end of 2019, anti-government protesters were holding regular concerts and…

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Added on: 12/18/2019

Argentine soap opera a hit for trans rights

12/17/2019

A popular soap opera in Argentina with a groundbreaking love scene between a transgender woman and man has helped break down stereotypes and negative views about gender…

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Added on: 12/18/2019

Colombia: Bogotá’s first female mayor marries same-sex partner

12/17/2019

The first woman to be elected mayor of Colombia’s capital city has married her partner in a private civil ceremony before taking office. Claudia López announced her…

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Added on: 12/17/2019

Netflix ‘gay Jesus’ film sparks backlash in Brazil

12/17/2019

A comedy on Netflix depicting Jesus as a gay man has prompted widespread anger in Brazil with almost two million people signing a petition calling on the…

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Added on: 12/09/2019

Attack the OAS: Inside the ultra-conservative war on the Inter-American human rights system

12/05/2019

“The attack first started when I was president”, Margarette May Macaulay, a lawyer and former judge from Jamaica who was elected to the top post at the…

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Added on: 12/08/2019

The Fight for Peace and Justice in Colombia

12/07/2019

Late last August, prominent FARC commanders Iván Márquez and Jesús Santrich declared that they would be taking up arms against the Colombian state once again. The announcement…

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Added on: 12/07/2019

Brazilian Foundation Develops App to Map Risk Areas for LGBT Population

12/07/2019

Fiocruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation) has developed an App to map the areas of the country regarded as the most violent for the LGBT population. Users will point…