Rabbi Marshal Meyer, from the Bet El Community and member of the National Commission for the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP), stated in a meeting with the activist Carlos Jáuregui in 1985 that the Commission had detected on its list
of persons denounced as missing 400 homosexuals
who, although they had not disappeared for that reason, the treatment had been especially sadistic and violent, like that of the Jewish detainees.
It was not until 2011 that CONADEP received
the declaration of transvestite and trans people detained in clandestine centers
.
"The dictatorship not only implied a political authoritarianism but also a moral one.
The repression of the popular movement did not exclude the persecution of lesbians, bisexuals, gays, fags, transvestites, and transgender people as part of the disciplinary mechanisms of society.
But that repression of the Diversity was not socially prosecuted nor was it part of the judicial cases for Human Rights violations, therefore, claiming the
historic advances in Memory, Truth and Justice
, we want to make visible the history of state violence against LGBTI+ people that we were , we are and will be part of the struggles of our peoples," say the Pride and Struggle Front 47 years after the coup.
In these 40 years of democracy, other stories have been heard as progress has been made in the conquest of rights.
Like the
women who were able to recount the harassment and rape in captivity
, which added violence to the horror.
The repression suffered by sexual orientation and gender identity with
arguments of "moral cleansing"
also multiplies the fear.
At 40 years of age, it is time to
look beyond "cis democracy"
, as Francisco Quiñones called it this Thursday at the elegant Palacio Ortiz Basualdo, where the French ambassador, Claudia Scherer-Effosse, and the French ambassador for the rights of LGBT+ people, Jean-Marc Berthon, presented the Human Rights Prize of the French Republic to the Mocha Celis Civil Association, which in 2011 created the Travesti
-Trans Popular Baccalaureate
, from which 300 people have already graduated.
With more education, the community seeks
to change its reality - even today the life expectancy is 35 years - from within.
But discrimination is foreign and is still present.
As Alba Rueda, ambassador for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity of the Argentine Foreign Ministry, also said at the event: "This March 24
we will take to the streets to ask for a better democratic quality
."
A more inclusive democracy.
look too
The Global LGBTI Conference of the Coalition for Equal Rights kicks off in Buenos Aires
Argentine Alba Rueda, ambassador of diversity, awarded in the United States
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