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Added on: 07/07/2024

Argentina once led on LGBTQ rights. After 4 lesbians are set on fire, critics blame rising intolerance on Milei’s government

07/06/2024

It was an attack that sent shockwaves through a country long considered a pioneer in LGBTQ rights. In the early hours of May 6, four lesbian women…

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Added on: 07/04/2024

Cameroon president’s daughter comes out, reveals relationship with Brazilian model

07/03/2024

In the face of Cameroon‘s criminalization of LGBTQ+ relationships, the daughter of the nation’s president has come out. Brenda Biya, daughter of President Paul Biya, revealed in a recent post…

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Added on: 06/30/2024

LGBTQIA+ Pride Day: Fight for rights in Brazil goes back a long way

06/29/2024

“Visibility” is a word that permeates the history of the LGBTQIA+ struggle in Brazil. Not even during the most violent and authoritarian times—such as the military dictatorship—was…

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Added on: 06/27/2024

Peru to stop labeling transgender people as mentally ill

06/26/2024

LIMA, June 25 (Reuters) – Peru will stop listing individuals who identify as transgender, among others, as suffering from mental disorders, the country’s health ministry announced on…

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Added on: 06/26/2024

Peru to stop labeling transgender people as mentally ill

06/25/2024

Peru will stop listing individuals who identify as transgender, among others, as suffering from mental disorders, the country’s health ministry announced on Tuesday, following a backlash to…

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Added on: 06/23/2024

In Brazil’s election, the gay vote counts

06/22/2024

When nearly 2.5 million people converged on Sao Paulo this year for the world’s biggest gay pride parade, the celebration emphatically reminded Brazil’s presidential candidates of the…

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Added on: 06/13/2024

LGBTQ+ health workers in Brazil kick off Pride with a dance challenge

06/12/2024

Brazilian medical professionals are celebrating Pride Month with the hashtag #DesafioMedicasLGBT or #MedicalChallengeLGBT. Doctor Vinícius Borges launched the playful challenge. In it, the health workers pass a uniformed worker…

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Added on: 06/03/2024

Pride revelers in Sao Paulo reclaim Brazil’s national symbols

06/02/2024

The iconic yellow and green of Brazil’s flag mixed with a sea of rainbow-colored tutus, hand fans and drag queen hairdos at Sunday’s LGBTQ+ pride parade in…

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Added on: 05/23/2024

The neoliberal populism of Milei and Meloni

05/22/2024

When far-right “outsider” Javier Milei was elected Argentina’s president in November, hard-right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was the first European leader to congratulate him. In February,…

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Added on: 05/23/2024

Weeks ahead of its famous LGBT Pride parade, Brazil struggles with one LGBTI killing every 38 hours

05/22/2024

São Paulo, Brazil – In 2023, 230 LGBTI+ individuals were violently killed in Brazil, according to data released this month by the Observatory of LGBTI+ Deaths and Violence….

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Added on: 05/19/2024

Protesters rally in Peru against decree classifying seven gender identities as “mental illness”

05/18/2024

Sexual diversity activists protested in Peru’s capital in front of the health ministry Friday to demand that the government repeal a decree that characterizes seven gender identities,…

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Added on: 05/16/2024

Peru classifies trans people as ‘mentally ill’ after government decree

05/15/2024

Trans, non-binary, and intersex people in Peru are now classified as “mentally ill” following a decree from the government’s health ministry. The decree, signed by Peruvian president…

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Added on: 05/13/2024

In progressive Argentina, the LGBTQ+ community says President Milei has turned back the clock

05/12/2024

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — When Luana Salva got her first formal job after years of prostitution, she was ecstatic. A quota law in Argentina that promoted the…

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Added on: 05/12/2024

Gay parades shake up the weekend in several parts of Brazil

05/11/2024

Until a few years ago, few places in Brazil had gay parades. Today, however, the reality is different. From Oiapoque to Chuí, distant cities celebrate their LGBT…

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Added on: 05/10/2024

New intolerance figures: Every hour, an LGBT person is raped in Brazi

05/09/2024

Homophobia and transphobia numbers show that violence against the LGBT group has not decreased. On the contrary, it increased. This year, every hour a homosexual, bisexual, transvestite…

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Added on: 05/04/2024

ADVOCATING FOR OLDER LGBTI PERSONS: VISIT OF THE IE OLDER PERSONS TO PERU

05/04/2024

From 11 to 22 March 2024, the United Nations (UN) Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, Dr Claudia Mahler, conducted an…

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Added on: 05/03/2024

Drag Race Brazil host shares horrific conversion therapy experience

05/02/2024

Grag Queen, the host of Brazil’s Drag Race spin-off, has spoken about being forced to undergo conversion therapy. The drag queen shot to fame as the winner of…

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Added on: 05/02/2024

For the first time, IBGE analyzed data on gay marriage in Brazil

05/01/2024

Due to the 2013 resolution of the National Justice Council, which emphasizes that all registry offices must carry out civil unions between people of the same sex,…

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Added on: 04/29/2024

The 1st Diversity Expo is coming, which will bring products and services to the LGBT public to São Paulo

04/28/2024

A EXPO Diversity, event aimed at the end consumer, aimed at the public, LGBT and people who value culture, entertainment and quality products, will take place at the event…

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Added on: 04/12/2024

Rio’s Runway, Reimagined: Transmasc and Nonbinary Performers Expand Brazil’s Ballroom Scene

04/11/2024

“Ballroom changes lives, you know? It’s inevitable,” said Maru Camargo, who joined Rio de Janeiro’s Ballroom scene about a year ago after moving from the countryside. If you…

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Added on: 04/11/2024

UN LGBTQ Rights In Columbia Briefing

04/10/2024

For the first time in its 78-year history the United Nations Security Council received a full briefing in a regular session on security issues impacting LGBTQ people…

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Added on: 03/29/2024

The veteran LGBTQ+ activist who defies statistics and dreams of becoming a centenarian

03/28/2024

The dream of leaving her small town to see the world has been fulfilled, as she’s ventured throughout and beyond her native Brazil. Now, she has another dream:…

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Added on: 03/10/2024

In Argentina, feminists and LGBT groups challenge Javier Milei

03/09/2024

Around a hundred women, transgender, and non-binary people gathered on Wednesday, March 6 on the patio of the Hotel Hector Quagliaro in Buenos Aires, loaned by the…

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Added on: 03/09/2024

In Argentina, feminists and LGBT groups challenge Javier Milei

04/08/2024

Around a hundred women, transgender, and non-binary people gathered on Wednesday, March 6 on the patio of the Hotel Hector Quagliaro in Buenos Aires, loaned by the…

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Added on: 02/16/2024

How Latin Americans Are Learning To Embrace The “Coming Out” Of LGBTQ+ Loved Ones

02/15/2024

Jorge Apolaya, a 45-year-old Peruvian, is pained to recall his mother’s disappointment in 2007, when she heard him admit he was gay and liked men. Activists like…

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Added on: 02/06/2024

Argentina Serves As Safe Haven For Russia’s LGBT Refugees

02/05/2024

Persecuted and prosecuted in their home country, some members of Russia’s LGBT community have been driven abroad — and hundreds have moved to Argentina, where their civil…

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Added on: 01/30/2024

The Brazilian bishop who took the first step toward the Catholic Church embracing gays and transgender people

01/29/2024

The next lesbian, gay, or transgender person to be the godparent of a baby baptized in a Catholic parish, or in a cathedral, in any corner of…

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Added on: 01/21/2024

In Brazil, murders of transvestites and trans people led crimes against the LGTBI population in 2023

01/20/2024

At least 257 people from the LGTBI population were murdered in Brazil last year, of which 49.42% of the victims belonged to transvestite and transgender groups, according…

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Added on: 01/16/2024

Brazil drag queen fights hate with children’s stories

01/15/2024

Wearing heavy makeup and a fuchsia wig, Brazilian drag queen Helena Black is acting out a story for a rapt group of children — but this is…

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Added on: 01/02/2024

2023 World Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights Progress – Part 2: Latin America and Caribbean

12/31/2023

Latin American and the Caribbean didn’t see quite the dynamic changes that came in 2022, when three countries decriminalized gay sex and one legalized same-sex marriage. But…