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From December 18 to 20, more than 50 gay leaders from across Latin America will meet in Curitiba, Brazil, for the Regional Meeting Gay Latino, in order to identify the problems of gay men and bisexual Latino related to health, public policy, homophobia and institutional violence in general, defining advocacy strategies to move towards full equality of rights and improve the regional response to HIV in these communities.
The accumulated experience of leaders and activists from the region that will attend the event aims to create a more effective design of concrete answers to the problems that gay men in Latin America continue to face and the event will serve as a forum for dialogue starting point to a new regional activists articulation with that goal. All news coverage, updates and information will be published through social networks, Facebook, Twitter and live broadcasts via Periscope.
During the start of the new GayLatino Network, various topics will be addressed, from the macro cultural analysis regarding Latino masculinity and barriers of homophobia and hegemonic foundations. In addition, the meeting will be opportunities for discussion from the experiences and visions of renowned activists throughout the region and the world in the response to HIV and the struggle for human rights of LGBT people as well as good governance practices of their organizations and networks.
During the three-day meeting, which is already established as an innovative and extremely important for the Latino gay movement in daily work space to curb HIV as a public health problem, the program calls different teams dedicated to analyzing the situation regional in order to propose strategies for effective action.
"Our Latin American region needs to rekindle the community leaders to ensure that no one is left behind in the response to HIV.” Mentions Simon Cazal, executive director of the organization SOMOSGAY which co-organized the meeting with the Dignidade Group, the Brazilian Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bissexuais, Transvestites and Transexuais (ABGLT) and Argentina LGBT Federation (FALGBT) with the support of UNAIDS America, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), Robert Carr Foundation and AIDS and Hepatitis Program of the Brazilian Government.
With this starting point, the GayLatino network intends to make its operation dynamic and steady, recognizing that the strength of the global movement of response to HIV in the last 30 years and human rights movement of LGBT people is that they have It has been and continue to be open and dynamic, continuously integrating new participants, policy makers and community leaders.
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