Bulletin T-informa / Year II - 2009 - Issue 023
Articles: Transgender Memorial Day
By Belissa Andía
For years it has been conducting the Memorial Day Transgender. There are 10 dates on which reminds colleagues that their lives have been blinded by irrational hate of those who believe that gender boundaries insurgency, deserves death.
Personalities: Marsha Johnson
Johnson was an afroamerican transgender activist who had great popularity in the gay scene and performing arts in New York between 1960 and 1990. She was one of the largest and best- known drag queens at Stonewall was present, as we know an icon of the LGBTI movement. The brawl ocurred at Stonewall in June of 1969 to date came after the pride march worlwide.
Library: Declaration of the Rights Trans Conference in Malta 2009 and Ecuadorian Manifesto
We give you two important documents:
The final Declaration of the European Rights Trans Conference (Malta, october 2009) and the
Ecuadorian Manifesto against trans pathologizing.
Books: The Trans-sexual
Frignet, Henry.
Buenos Aires: Nueva Visión, 2003.
This is a doubtful book with a sarcastic tone that seems to address the issue of transsexualism as a disease since medical science gestated and brought to its mediation by the effecto of capitalism and globalization. To raise such serious criticisms of transgender identity, their approach is brief, shallow and seemingly insidious.
Arts: The intense drama of a transexual
"Life" program recovers some of the documentaries which had more impact at the time. The depth of the story of a transsexual bring the drama for living in a body which doesn´t belong.
Conference: ILGA-LAC Regional Conference (2010)
ILGA’s 5th Latin American and Caribbean Regional Conference will be held in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, on January 27th to 30th 2010. This Conference aim to define strategies for the promotion of human rights, citizenship, health and culture of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender and intersex people in the Latin American and Caribbean Region for the period 2010-2012.
