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Basketball – FIBA World Cup – Final – Argentina v Spain – Wukesong Sport Arena, Beijing, China – September 15, 2019 Argentina’s Luis Scola speaks with teammates REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
MEXICO CITY – Traveling Argentina and the world as a professional basketball player, Sebastian Vega was living his childhood dream. But carrying a secret serious within was a nightmare.
“When I started to experience attracted to a human, I had a very bad time,” Vega recalled recently on the device from his home in the southern city of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina.
“I felt shame, guilt, a lot of rejection, but at the same time the desire to be with someone,” Vega told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
That all changed last week when Vega posted a letter on social media coming out to his fans – the first openly gay professional basketball player in Argentina’s history.
“I was really scared, but the fear didn’t paralyze me,” said 31-year-old Vega. “I felt truly free: it had been a elongated time since I’d walked without such a weighty weight on my shoulders.”
Argentina has made significant prog
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Equaldex's Equality Index is a rating from 0 to 100 (with 100 existence the most equal) to help visualize the legal rights and public attitudes towards LGBTQ+ (lesbian, male lover, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex...) people in each region. The Equality Index is an average of two indexes: the legal index and the general opinion Index.
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The LGBT legal index measures the current legal status of 13 different issues ranging from the legal status of homosexuality, same-sex marriage, transgender rights, LGBT discrimination protections, LGBT censorship laws, and more. Each topic is weighted differently (for example, if same-sex marriage is illegal in a region, it would acquire a much bigger impact on the score than not allowing LGBT people to serve in the military). Each topic is assigned a "total workable score" and a "score" is assigned based the status of the statute using a rating scale that ranges from 0% to 100% (for example, if homosexuality is legal, it would would get a score of 100, but if it's illegal, it would receve a score of 0.)
Argentina is the home of the Argentine Homosexual Group (CHA) led by Carlos Jáuregui, the Association of Transvestites, Transsexuals, and Gender diverse Persons (ATTTA), the Matching Marriage Law since 2010, and the Gender Self Law in 2012 (the latter two rights entity examples in Latin America). Therefore, in a territory that is a reference for rights and initiatives for sexual and gender diversity, its capital couldn't be any less.
In Buenos Aires City, there is a subway station that celebrates diversity, a café literally named "Pride," parties, cultural houses, a large pride march, and even sports teams! That's why we've compiled 23 Diverse alternatives (an abbreviation that stands for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transvestites, Transgender Persons, Transsexuals, Intersexuals, and Queer) among places to meal delicious food, enjoy flamboyant queen shows, party, carry out sports, or simply own a good time in a dissenting and approachable environment.
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By Nicole Greenfield
BUENOS AIRES -- The judgment finally came at around 4 a.m., broadcast live to the thousands who had traveled from every province -- young and senior, gay and vertical -- huddled together around small fires outside the National Congress building in Argentina’s capital.
After 14 grueling hours of debate, Argentina’s Senate voted 33 to 27 to approve La Ley de Matrimonio Igualitario (the Equal Marriage Law) becoming the first Latin American country to grant same-sex couples the right to bond and the critically important benefits that accompany the union.
“When we heard the approval, our differences ceased to exist,” remembers Verónica Capriglioni, a public figure of the sapphic and bisexual women’s group La Fulana. “At that moment everyone in the plaza felt the same; we distributed that feeling and we celebrated it. We hugged and we cried and we screamed. We felt love and happiness. We were all equal.”
But old stereotypes still run deep in Argentina. Despite its elite status as one of 10 countries with legal same-sex marriage and progressive leader in South America, the reality is that homosexuality remains a taboo topic and violence persists, particula
Nearly 40 countries at UN advocate LGBTQ families
Nearly 40 countries at the United Nations backed LGBTQ families on Tuesday, at a time when some Muslim and African nations are contesting sexual orientation and gender persona language in UN forums.
"Families play a fundamental role in society. Supporting families is an crucial element in promoting and protecting human rights," 37 countries said in a statement at the UN Human Rights Council.
"This support must be inclusive of all family compositions, including multigenerational and extended families, available parent households, LGBTIQ+ families and Indigenous kinship groups," Australia's representative said on behalf of several countries. They were mainly from Europe and the Americas, plus Israel, Fresh Zealand and East Timor.
They called on countries and UN bodies "to carry on to apply an inclusive lens to families, and to ensure that equality, non-discrimination, and the universality of human rights remain at the centre of engagement in supporting families".
Argentina, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Spain and the United States were among the signatories.
The statement comes as s