NOTA DE PRENSA POR EL FALLECIMIENTO DE ELIZABETH TAYLOR

COGAM, Colectivo de Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales y Bisexuales de Madrid, quiere manifestar su reconocimiento a la gran labor y apoyo por los derechos de las personas seropositivas en todo el mundo, que realizó la Actriz Elizabeth Taylor, fallecida el 23 de marzo de 2011 en Los Ángeles.

Su activismo desde los inicios de la pandemia del SIDA supuso un importante espaldarazo económico a lucha contra el VIH/SIDA, a la vez que ayudó y mucho a despertar la conciencia de la gente sobre esta enfermedad.

Desde COGAM, y estamos seguros/as que desde otras organizaciones, le agradecemos su entrega por unos derechos que aún hoy siguen en peligro, porque la discriminación por el VIH/SIDA es un hecho que se sigue dando 30 años después del descubrimiento del virus del VIH.

AGUSTÍN LÓPEZ, a este respecto declara que la labor de esta gran actriz, y mejor persona, nunca quedará en el olvido para todas las personas que luchamos por los derechos de las personas afectadas por el VIH/SIDA.

Es necesario que su activismo por los derechos humanos tenga su continuidad con la incorporación a la lucha contra el VIH/SIDA de muchas más personas que tienen la capacidad de influir de una forma notable en la sociedad, como la tuvo y siempre la tendrá Elizabeth Taylor.

[UK]
Channel 4 to improve portrayal of transgender people
Channel 4 has commissioned research looking into the issues and challenges faced by transgender people, which it will use to commission programmes that accurately portray people from this community.

[UK]
Lords drop transgender state pension protection
A House of Lords committee yesterday dropped an amendment to the Pensions Bill that would have created protection for transgender people against unfair state pension calculations.

[Morocco]
The loneliness of an intersex
Neither male nor female, Said, 45, was born intersex (hermaphrodite). As a result of this condition, Said has never had access to real work or any decent medical care. Dreaming of reversing this condition, Said dreams of becoming a "man" to live live a normal life.

[India] [Film]
Narthaki goes places
When debutant director Vijayapadma decided to make Narthaki, she wouldn't have thought her film would be received well by the industry even before it hits screens.

[Indonesia]
Jakarta’s Working Ladyboys
It is a few minutes past eight in the evening on Jalan Blora in Central Jakarta and nightlife revelers are starting to trickle onto the street, still wet and muddy from the downpour earlier in the afternoon. A piercingly loud dangdut tune pours out of one of the street’s shabby clubs, where women in tight, brightly colored outfits stand and strut by the front doors.

[USA]
Transgender golfer Lana Lawless enters mediation with Long Drivers Association
In late 2010, transgender golfer Lana Lawless jointly sued the LPGA Tour and Long Drivers of America for their adopted regulation that a competitor in their evens must be born with female genetalia. Weeks later, the LPGA membership voted to change their constitution to allow Lawless to compete, should she qualify to do so.
Transgender golfer, Long Drivers face mediation

[DC/MD, USA]
Transsexual Activists Rally At Supreme Court to Demand Protections in MD
A controversial bill has been proposed in Maryland, HB 235, which protects against discrimination concerning gender identity and gender expression. The bill originally included protections in housing, employment and public accommodations. Unfortunately, the alarming compromise was recently made to remove protections for public accommodations, which will legalize second class citizenship to transsexual and transgender Marylanders. The community has mobilized to counter this unconstitutional agenda, and to oppose Equality Maryland and the elected officials who support the fractional bill. (Photo)

[IL, USA]
Julie Ann Johnson, 1942-2011
Train expert was major booster of railway museum, leader in transgender community
In Memoriam: Julie Ann Johnson

[MA, USA]
Activists laud City Council’s passage of pro-trans resolution
Resolution, offered by Arroyo, offers support for Transgender Civil Rights Bill.

[MD, USA]
Community Debates Gender Identity Bill
The exclusion of a public accommodations provision from a Maryland bill aimed at ending transgender discrimination has led one group of LGBT activists, Trans Maryland, to oppose the legislation.

[MD, USA]
Maryland Transgender Activist Exonerated of All Ethics Charges, Seeks Apology from Montgomery County
It was in the fall of 2007 that Maryland's Montgomery County passed a bill that protects citizens from discrimination in areas such as housing, employment, public accommodations, under the basis of gender identity.

[NY, USA] [Film]
Richards Film Will Debut at Women’s US Open
The fifth annual Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival will include the world premiere of Renée, a documentary exploring the story of Renée Richards, the first transgender tennis player to compete in the women’s US Open. Directed by Eric Drath, Renée is full of rare archival footage and interviews with close friends and family members -- as well as tennis legends Martina Navratilova, John McEnroe and Billie Jean King – and explores the surprising and affecting human story behind one of America’s first transgender people in the public eye.
Renée Richards Doc Anchors Filmfest

[PA, USA]
SEPTA Refuses to Stop Gender Identity Discrimination
Surprisingly, the TransPass is not trans-friendly. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) requires its monthly transit passes, the TransPass and the TrailPass, to be marked with an “M” or an “F” sticker. In theory, the gender identifiers are an attempt to decrease pass sharing among friends and family. In reality, the policy has created transgender discrimination.

[UT, USA]
Ogden approves LGBT protections
After almost a year’s worth of deliberation, two recently passed ordinances — aimed at prohibiting job and housing discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation — returned Tuesday for the City Council’s reconsideration.

[Ecuador]
¡Dispararon a trans Emely!
El hecho ocurrió en Sauces VI. Recibió tres tiros en sus piernas. Nadie la defendió. Ella fue operada.
Emely Méndez, la trans femenina lésbica que apareció ayer en un nota de EXTRA junto a su pareja Kelly Párraga, fue dada de alta de la clínica Guayaquil luego de ser intervenida quirúrgicamente de las heridas de bala que recibió por parte de dos sujetos presuntamente trans fóbicos, quienes la persiguieron mientras caminaba hacia su casa en la ciudadela Sauces VI. (Foto)
¡Transexuales “lésbicas” se aman con locura
¡Dispararon a trans Emely!
¡Una luchadora de toda la vida!

[Honduras]
Impunes 35 crímenes contra gays en Honduras
Condenan a Estado por injusticia y falta de garantías. Lamentaron que no se dan a conocer avances de las investigaciones
Comunidad gay pide a Fiscalía investigar crímenes de odio
Homosexuales marchan por el esclarecimiento de los crímenes de odio
Repressed fear in a transgendered world

[Colombia]
Piden parar los ataques contra mujeres trans
Organizaciones defensoras de la diversidad sexual denunciaron que la situación de las mujeres trans en Barranquilla es cada vez más crítica y delicada, por la persecución y los homicidios registrados en su contra.

[Venezuela]
Crímenes de odio
No existen en la norma penal venezolana, pero abundan en la calle. Como los motivados por homofobia, por ejemplo. Los colectivos LGBTI aspiran a que se incluyan en la agenda de la AN.