International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

This May 17th is the day against lesbo, homo, trans hate, celebrating 29 years since the removal, in 1990, of homosexuality from the lists of mental illnesses by the World Health Organization.

While progress has been made in terms of rights since then, the ongoing institutional and social violence suffered by the community, coupled with numerous hate crimes and the fact that LGBTQ+ people continue to be criminalized in 70 UN member states, highlights that freedom over bodies and sexualities constructed outside of the so-called binary norm makes a system that rejects diversity uncomfortable.

This day is essential to remember an unprecedented event in the fight for rights, depathologization and visibility of multiple identities.  

Esteban Paulón, The vice president of the Argentine Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Trans, Undersecretary of Sexual Diversity of the Government of the province of Santa Fe and member of the Steering Committee of the Gay Latino network, spoke with CLACSO Radio about advances and setbacks in the matter.

International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

This May 17th marks 29 years since the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the lists of mentioned doenças in 1990.

Rita by Cássia Alves Oliveira, PhD in Anthropology, member of the Graduate Program in Social Sciences and the Department of Anthropology of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil, spoke to Rádio CLACSO about progress and resources in the matter.