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Travestis in Salta, Argentina, in 1988. The term travesti is used in Latin America to designate people who were assigned male at birth and develop a feminine gender identity. Other terms have been invented and are used in South America in an attempt to further distinguish it from cross-dressing, drag, and pathologizing connotations.
Roberta Gambine Moreira (born 7 December 1964) is a Brazilian fashion model, actress and television personality. She is constantly mentioned in the media as one of the greatest Brazilian icons and one of the main sex symbols in the country between the 1980s and 1990s, in addition to being a pioneer of transfeminism in her native country.
A group of Argentine travestis carrying the coffin of their murdered friend, August 1987. Trans women face a form of violence known as trans bashing. The Washington Blade reported that Global Rights, an international NGO, tracked the mistreatment of trans women in Brazil, including at the hands of the police. [60]
Tranny Fag (Portuguese: Bixa Travesty) is a 2018 Brazilian documentary film directed by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman about Linn da Quebrada, a travesti Brazilian musician and activist whose tactics for confronting homophobia and transphobia include radical performance art, film, and music.
The Brazilian Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Travesti, Transsexual and Intersex Association (Associação Brasileira de Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais, Travestis, Transexuais e Intersexos or ABGLT), is a national network made up of 203 member groups, including about 141 gay, lesbian, and trans groups, and about 62 "collaborating" organizations which are involved with human rights and AIDS.
José Pérez Ocaña (Cantillana, Seville, 24 March 1947 - 18 September 1983), also known as Ocaña, was a performer artist, painter, and Spanish LGBT rights activist.. Ocaña was a central figure in Barcelona's counter-culture movement during the Spanish transition to democracy, at a time of particular vitality. [1]
Florencia Trinidad (born 2 March 1975), better known by her stage name Flor de la V, is an Argentine trans-woman, actress, television personality, comedian and vedette. As producer Gerardo Sofovich 's protégée, who discovered her in a 1998 revue in Buenos Aires, De La V gained media exposure and got small television roles.
A travesty is an absurd or grotesque misrepresentation, a parody, or grossly inferior imitation.In literary or theatrical contexts it may refer to: Burlesque, a literary, dramatic, or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects