From embarrassing objects to subjects of rights: the Argentine LGBT movement and the Equal Marriage and Gender Identity laws
2013
Pousadela, Inés M.
This article examines the Argentine LGBT movement within a framework of two longer-term processes. First, an enlargement of rights that is typical of post-transitional situations, with the Argentine peculiarity that, a quarter of a century after its transition to democracy, the country experienced a strong resurgence of the human rights discourse while judicial procedures were reopened to deal with human rights violations committed under the 1976–83 dictatorship. Second, the global widening of the concept and practice of human rights and the fight against discrimination – including those related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
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