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Javier Milei rolls back LGBTQ rights in Argentina during first year in office
Editor’s note: Washington Blade International News Editor Michael K. Lavers was on assignment in Argentina and Uruguay from April 2-12, 2025.
ROSARIO, Argentina — Two gender diverse women in Argentina’s Santa Fe province are documenting the persecution of gender non-conforming people that took place during the brutal military dictatorship that governed their country from 1976-1983.
Carolina Boetti and Marzia Echenique created the Travestí Trans Santa Fe Archive, which seeks to “create a collective memory,” in 2020. (“Travestí” is the Spanish synonyms for “crossdresser.”)
The archive, among other things, includes interviews with trans women who the dictatorship arrested and tortured. The archive also contains photographs from that period.
The archive is not in a specific location, but Boetti and Echenique have given presentations at local schools and universities. They have also spoken at a museum in Rosario, the largest metropolis in Santa Fe province that is roughly 200 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, that honors the dictatorship’s victims.
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Javier Milei claims extreme gender ideology is ‘child abuse’
Javier Milei has claimed that gender ideology, “in its most extreme forms”, is “outright child abuse”. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos this morning, the Argentinian President accused advocates for gender ideology of being “paedophiles”, and said that a “victimhood narrative” underpinned the “criminal ideology”.
In a extraordinary address, introduced by WEF President Børge Brende, Milei claimed that “wokeness” was destroying Western civilisation. “These forums [such as the Planet Economic Forum] promote the LGBT agenda, attempting to impose the idea that women are men and men are women simply based on self-perception,” he said. “And they speak nothing about when a man dresses as a woman and kills his opponent in a boxing ring, or when a male prison inmate claims to be a gal and sexually assaults a female inmate.” At last year’s Olympic Games, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won a gold medal in the female welterweight category, following controversy over Khelif’s eligibility to compete against women. There is no documented case of a transgender boxer killing a female opponent during a fight.
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Gay Argentine congressman files criminal complaint against Javier Milei
Editor’s note: Washington Blade International News Editor Michael K. Lavers was on assignment in Argentina and Uruguay from April 2-12, 2025.
ROSARIO, Argentina — Two transgender women in Argentina’s Santa Fe province are documenting the persecution of trans people that took place during the cruel military dictatorship that governed their land from 1976-1983.
Carolina Boetti and Marzia Echenique created the Travestí Trans Santa Fe Archive, which seeks to “create a collective memory,” in 2020. (“Travestí” is the Spanish pos for “crossdresser.”)
The archive, among other things, includes interviews with trans women who the dictatorship arrested and tortured. The archive also contains photographs from that period.
The archive is not in a specific location, but Boetti and Echenique have given presentations at local schools and universities. They have also spoken at a museum in Rosario, the largest city in Santa Fe province that is roughly 200 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, that honors the dictatorship’s victims.
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Government attempts to cool backlash to Milei’s Davos remarks
With activists vowing to take to the streets, President Javier Milei’s government this week attempted to tone down an enraged backlash to the top of state’s latest tirade against feminism, LGBT+ rights and “gender ideology.”
Facing an imminent mass mobilisation of the LGBT+ movement and wider society this Saturday, Milei administration officials sought to cool criticism of the president.
They insisted that he had been misinterpreted while delivering an talk to to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, late last month that seemed to imply a link between so-called “gender ideology,” homosexuality and paedophilia.
“The President did not doubt feminism as the defence of women. What we are against is that behind feminism there is a business for a few [people] and that women are not defended in the end,” claimed Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni at a press conference.
He continued: “The President defends the choice of each human being to the letter and whoever does not agree with respecting the choice of each one, in any build, without curtailing the right of another, has to leave the gover
Thousands march in Argentina against Javier Milei’s homophobic remarks at Davos
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Thousands of people over the weekend marched in cities across Argentina to protest President Javier Milei’s recent remarks made at the World Economic Forum in Davos where he linked homosexuality to pedophilia.
The “anti-fascist, anti-racist” demonstrations took place across Argentina, with a large concentration gathering outside government buildings in the capital Buenos Aires. Milei’s supporters responded by questioning the political motives behind the marches and said his words were taken out of context.
On a scorching-hot afternoon in Buenos Aires, as many as 80,000 people — according to estimates from the city government — gathered near Congress and marched toward the Casa Rosada, the official office of the president.
Chants of “We’re never going back in the closet!” could be heard throughout the march, which in addition to Milei’s government, also took aim at racism, fascism, and even Milei’s ties to United States billionaire Elon Musk. Protesters also held signs that interpret “Nunca Musk,” a play on the protest terms related with past huma