Showing posts with label trans Latina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trans Latina. Show all posts
Saturday, June 22, 2013

One Down,Three To Go In LA

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One of the wastes of DNA suspected of being involved in the brutal May 31 transphobic hate assault on Vivian Diego was arrested by LAPD ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Eva Longoria Offers Support To Trans Employee

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I have much love for my fellow Texan Eva Longoria, and like many people in the trans community was pissed to hear the story about about tran...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Upon Further Review, The 2013 Honor 41 List...

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Has FIVE trams people on it. .    There are four trans Latinas and trans man Isaac Gomez on the 2013 edition of the Honor 41 List.  To exp...
Monday, June 03, 2013

Ohio High School Lets Trans Latina Student Graduate Wearing Correct Gown

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This was the way Damian Garcia and Isaak Wolfe's cases should have gone.down and it's nice to see common sense prevail. In a scen...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

History Making Argentine Trans Woman Murdered

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Sad news coming out of Argentina.   32 year old Laura Aguilar, one of the first people to obtain a gender ID change under the Argentine Ge...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

Lorena Escalera-One Year Later

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Today marks the one year anniversary of the day that 25 year old Lorena Escalera was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment following a susp...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Introducing The TransLatin@ Coalition

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One of the reasons that my home girl Arianna Inurritegui Lint was at the Black Transmen, Inc conference in Dallas was to do a presentation...
Friday, February 08, 2013

Ecuador's Diane Rodriguez Poised To Make History

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February 17 could see international trans history being made if all goes well for 30 year old psychology student Diane Rodriguez on electi...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Dominican Republic Trans Org COTRAVEDT Demands End To Anti-Trans Discrimination

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There have been some interesting things happening for trans people in the Caribbean since 2010.  With the Organization of American States ...
Friday, December 07, 2012

Trans History-Roberta Close

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Contrary to this article implying that trans models like Lea T, Felipa Torres and Carol Marra are some 21st century twist to the Brazil...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Sylvia Rivera 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally Speech

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This is 1973 video of Sylvia Rivera speaking at the Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally despite attempts to silence her.    She push...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Janette Tovar Update

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The friends and family of our trans sister Janette Tovar held a candlelight vigil for her Thursday night at the Grapevine Bar in Dallas t...
Friday, October 19, 2012

RIP, Janette

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Damn, we'll be adding another name to the 2012 TDOR list.  This time the fallen trans sister comes from my home state.   According to ...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Femanda Milan Scheduled To Be Deported From Denmark Today

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In October 2011 the European Union Parliament adopted asylum standards that stated that EU member nations must now include gender identi...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Death Threat Aimed At Casa Ruby

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I had the pleasure of meeting longtime Washington DC trans activist Ruby Corado last year while I was up there for Out On The Hill and was...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

4th Anniversary Of Angie Zapata's Murder

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Four years ago today we were beginning to hear the story about a young Latina transwoman who was found dead in her Greeley, CO apartment a...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

NY Latina Trans Activist Starts LBCF Community Fund

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As I've stated more than a few times on this blog over the last now six years and Amnesty International has cosigned on that point, Of...
Friday, March 16, 2012

RIP Agnes Torres Hernandez

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The international community of trans activists is one in which we are not only a close knit bunch, we tend to form friendships for life as...