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Sexuality, Health and Society: focus on women

The first issue in the second year of Sexuality Health and Society – Latin American Journal has an emphasis on sexual and reproductive Health. Three articles address female identities and reproductive careers, as well as women’s experiences, emotions and perceptions regarding pregnancy and vulnerability to STD/AIDS.

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ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association publishes the 4rth edition of its report and maps on State Sponsored Homophobia throughout the world based on research by Daniel Ottosson.

State sponsored homophobia

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This fundamental step in the legal recognition of LGBT rights in Argentina results from an intense work of activism: political, academic and social. Read article by researchers Carlos Figari and Mario Pecheny about the new argentine law that incorporates same-sex couples into civil marriage, with the same rights and obligations, including adoption.

Habemus equal marriage

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Abortion realities

While data released by the National Abortion Survey shows that 15 percent (nearly 5.3 million) of Brazilian women have had an induced abortion, a Federal Legislative Commission approves the "Statute of the Unborn” Bill. If approved, it would establish that human life begins at conception and, therefore, should be protected by law

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Sexualities in the South

What do we mean when we say “Global South”? What are the issues involved in thinking of “our own” analytical categories, “our theory” and “our politics” outside the hegemony of metropolitan centers? Intellectuals from Africa, Asia and Latin America met in Buenos Aires to address the ways these questions intersect with the study of the political dimensions of sexuality.

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The statements made by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State, to the effect that pedophilia would be connected to homosexuality has raised intense debates. The Secretary’s statements were seen by many observers as a strategy by the Holy See to attribute the abuse against children and young people in the Church to “deviant” priests, shifting the focus of attention away from the Vatican.

Liturgies of Sexuality

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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ETHNOLOGY AND FOLKLORE (SIEF)
People Make Places: ways of feeling the world
Lisbon (17/04/2011 - 21/04/2011)
Call for papers: Panel “Emotions and the Public Sphere” (P214)
Submission Deadline: 15/10/2010

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The fifth edition of "Sexualidades"
The latest issue Sexualidades No. 5: A Working Paper Series on Latin American and Caribbean Sexualities is out: The fifth edition of the trilingual online journal, Trajectories of Male coupling in Mexico City: An exploration based on sexual biographies by Gabriel Gallego Montes is now available on the IRN website.

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Politics of Sexuality in Latin America
Edited by Javier Corrales and Mario Pecheny, The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America presents the first English-language reader on LGBT politics in the region. Representing a range of contemporary works by scholars, activists, analysts, and politicians, the chapters address LGBT issues in nations from Cuba to Argentina.

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Out of the closet
Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil, written by Rafael de la Dehesa as a result of his PhD thesis, is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the historical development and contemporary dynamics of LGBT activism in Latin America’s two largest democracies.

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Should There Be an Inquisition for the Pope?
It doesn’t seem right that the Catholic Church is spending Holy Week practicing the unholy art of spin. Complete with crown-of-thorns imagery, the church has started an Easter public relations blitz defending a pope who went along with the perverse culture of protecting molesters and the church’s reputation rather than abused children.

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Redefining rape
Women are increasingly reporting sexual violations/exploitation within the home, workplace, friends’ circle or university that don’t quite match the strict requirements of ‘rape’ or the loose connotations of ‘outraging her modesty’, the two broad types of sexual violations that the law recognises.

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On the media

| Soy el responsable de la persecución a homosexuales que hubo en Cuba: Fidel Castro (31/08/2010 - La Jornada - México)

| Novo presidente deve se comprometer com avanços nos direitos homossexuais, reivindicam ativistas (30/08/2010 - Agência de Notícias da Aids - Brasil)

| Una tortura específica y un terror que no se olvida (29/08/2010 – Rosario 12 - Argentina)

| Mulheres no centro das atenções (27/08/2010 - Veja - Brasil)

| Interpone amparo pareja gay contra IMSS en Nuevo León (27/08/2010 – NotieSe – México, DF)

| Casal gay pode adotar filho de qualquer sexo e idade, decide STF (26/08/2010 - Estado de São Paulo - Brasil)

| Mujeres violentadas sexualmente en el conflicto armado interno mueren sin acceder a justicia y reparación (25/08/2010 - Demus - Perú)

| Marchen, pero sin besos, sugiere gobierno de Guanajuato a gays (25/08/2010 – NotieSe – León, Guanajuato)

| Dois pesos, duas verdades (24/08/2010 - Observatório da Imprensa - Brasil)

| Marcha por la Diversidad Sexual en Chile (24/08/2010 - Santiago - Chile)

| “¡Yo no quiero que mi mamá se llame Juan!” (24/08/2010 – NotieSe – León, Guanajuato)

| Pronunciamiento de las Organizaciones , Colectivos y Activistas LGBT frente a la Homofobia del Ministerio de Educación (24/08/2010 - Blog de Lima Gay - Perú)

Although we do not feature new English contents as regularly, our Latin American website is updated weekly, featuring original articles, interviews, reviews, campaigns and news releases from the whole region. Please visit our Spanish and Portuguese homepages for the latest on sexuality research and sexual rights in Latin America.

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