Under Hugo Chávez, there have been many gains in the struggle for liberation, including for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people (LGBT). Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was outlawed in the 1999 Labour Organic Law but anti-discrimination proposals were dropped from the 1999 Constitution due to pressure from the Catholic Church; same-sex couples cannot marry or adopt children and several proposals that would have advanced such struggles were defeated in the Constitutional referendum of 2007. There have always been diverse political currents within the LGBT community, but three years ago, the first revolutionary LGBT collective was formed. We caught up with one of its founding members, activist María Gabriela Blanco, at a meeting of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Popular Alliance, APR) in Caracas.

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Debido al paso de la tormenta Isaac cerca de Puerto Rico, se ha pospuesto el Foro: El discrimen en Puerto Rico para el miércoles, 12 de septiembre a las a las 6:30 p.m. en el Colegio de Abogados.

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El coordinador de la Iniciativa desde la Diversidad Sexual por los Derechos Humanos de Nicaragua, pide que se cambie el artículo 78 del Código de la Familia, el cual "establece la definición de unión de hecho estable sólo entre personas heterosexuales.

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