The Safina, space activist Lesbian Reflection and Action in the city of Rosario since 2003 and member of Women Autoconvocados Rosario (MAR); in line with our firm policy articulation and collective impact from the which integrate space and advisory councils of public policies at the international, national, provincial and municipal [1] ; come to propose to the City Council of our City and in the context of lesbicide One year after the (killing lesbophobia) Natalia Gaitan occurred on March 7, 2010 in Cordoba and that his death makes us think that life we deserve as lesbians.
- declare the March 7th "Day anti lesbophobia."
- urging the Municipal Executive to carry out publicity and awareness campaigns in all areas, tending to overcome the heteronormative standard in public policy invisible and denies the existence of other identities, considering that reinforce discriminatory attitudes and hate crimes.
- to allow us to make a mural on the wall of Shed No. 11, located on the street Estevez Boero and Walk for the Arts, as part of the activities Awareness to be held on March 7, 2011.
We base our proposal on the recommendations that the Committee of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW ) him to Argentina in 2010 [2] .
Groups disadvantaged women
43. "The state party recognizes that fully respects the rights of older women, migrant women and women with disabilities and that these women are often victims of discrimination. The State party also recognizes that fully respects the rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and that these women are often victims of discrimination and violence.
44. The Committee urges the State party to ensure full protection of the rights of older women, migrant women, women with disabilities and lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, among others.
All women referred to should be able to live without being discriminated against or be victims of violence and be willing to exercise their rights, including civil, cultural, economic, political and social as well as sexual and reproductive rights. "
BRIEF HISTORY OF NATALIE GAITAN
was a young Natalia joys and sorrows, like many of us.
She lived in a poor neighborhood in the city of Cordoba and his mother worked together, jointly, in a community center.
was in the community center where they met Natalia and "X". There was an attraction between them and from that day began to love.
Natalia and "X" breaking with all mandates family, social, heterosexual, decide to give space to his wishes. And start a love story.
Like any lesbian relationship, crossing the barriers of discrimination, non-social legitimacy, and the family strength to support this engagement.
They, nonetheless, choose to live, even when the entire family of "X" is adamantly opposed.
In the afternoon on March 7 stepfather "X", Daniel Torres, was to look at the house they lived together forcing her to return to the home of his mother.
In this situation a friend of both, seeking to mediate the conflict, going to the house of the mother of X.
As her friend Natalie was delayed in his quest.
Natalia joined the discussion to her friend's mother had "X" and it was there that Daniel Torres, without words the rifle with a shotgun
* Natalia did not receive immediate assistance ...
as usual the poor, attended only by his stalwart mother, Graciela Lescano.
Why shoot? - Why kill such a dog?
Does shoot for being a lesbian? - Why a woman? - Why love another woman?
Natalia bleeds on the sidewalk, the ambulance takes an hour to arrive.
The police look the other way as always.
people is not involved, looking from the front ... they say: "... these are private things ... "
Today we take the streets in Argentina as women, as lesbians, to demand justice.
We want a decent life, we want respect.
repudiate discrimination and crimes lesbophobic.
lesbophobia WHAT IS?
"Once again I must say that lesbophobia wreaks havoc on our lives, from the most cruel to the more subtle but no less pernicious. Systematic insults and taunts, threats, sanctions and emotional blackmail, inability or refusal to grant existence to our desire, home confinement, the expulsion of our families, the desire for death by parents, early psychologizing, the oscillation between polarized and desexualization hypersexualization, gynecological care under budget heterosexist, beatings and abuse, rape and non-grinding, isolation, loss of custody of children, heterosexist harassment, fear of job loss, labor difficulties for carrying an expression of gender male, stigmatization and even murder are some of the expressions of a policy hatred, which did not end with the adoption of equal marriage, barely, and with much effort militant, with a plus especially those that activate Glttbi organizations without much funding, they begin to surface and come to a certain degree of legitimacy on the political agenda.
All these manifestations repressive and oppressive, a sex-political system governed by the dominance of a single model imposed as valid, heterosexual and monogamous, form an equation of vulnerability requires lesbians to resolve in the day to day, often with unpredictable results. Because this equation becomes more difficult-even deadly-when the body is crossed by other coordinates of differentiation that result in inequalities, such as class, gender expression, national origin, age, political affiliation, among others.
Because, basically, lesbophobia express the tacit consensus of silence makes the formula for the challenge of our lesbian identities, through a grid of impunity and coercion that regulates the stability and consistency of sex-gender binary, trying to ensure normality in each body with the right sex, gender for and the desire to appropriate. " (VALERIA FLORES) http://escritoshereticos.blogspot.com/
highlight and recognize the interest that the City Council has shown support and promote through specific regulatory compliance and integration of sexual diversity and ; Human Rights of the LGBT community; reason for requesting early resolution to this proposal.
Finally, we wish to express our willingness to contribute to achieving the objectives set, and we very this opportunity to greet (or / a) atte .-
The Reflection Safina - Lesbian Action Rosario - Argentina
0341/155998414
[1] Convention Campaign for Sexual and Reproductive Rights www.convencion.org.uy .
Participatory appraisal sexual and reproductive policy for the LGBT community.
Participation in the advisory council of sexual and reproductive health.
Advisory Council Area Sexual diversity
