ILGA TRANS WORLD SECRETARIAT NEWSLETTER -YEAR II / OCTOBER 2009 / ISSUE 22 |
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Brandon Teena
She was a trans man who was raped and murdered. She was the victim of the worst hate crimes committed in United States in the 90’s. His life and death were the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, which was based on the documentary film The Brandon Teena Story.
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Analysis from a transparent look to public policy LGBT of Bogota City
By Charlotte Schneider Callejas
Decree 608 adopted on 28 December 2007, established the public policy guidelines for the full guarantee of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, LGBT, on gender identities and sexual orientations in the capital district.
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The girl wanted to be a sailor. Female transvestism in Europe (XVII - XVIII)
Dekker, Rudolf M. y Lotte van de Pol
Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2006
This is a complex and detailed study to identify cases of female transvestism between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Holland. The results are a hundred and nineteen cases occurred between 1550 and 1839, demonstrating that it was not exceptional in the past that women have the appearance of man.
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A note on Congress about homoeroticism and power porn by Frau Diamanda
Under the International Interdisciplinary Congress “loves de(s)generated” homoeroticism in Peru and Latin America: knowledge, discourses and subject” were presented various papers around the homoeroticism in literature, society, culture and performing arts. It also addressed the subject in writers like Lacan and Eve Sedgwick, taking advantage to make an approach to their works and thoughts.
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Naturally transvestites
If you think that transvestism was only a feature of the humans, then you were wrong. The wisdom of nature has favored some animals change their dress and imitate the opposite sex.
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She lived in a body that did not belong
National Television from Chile in its "Life" has shown the story of Vicky Yáñez, Radiography of a change", the life of a transsexual woman, activist for the rights of trans people, who underwent a sex reassignment operation.
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