The main objectives of the meeting were analizing and promoting the defence of human rights of gay men and other men who have sex with other men in the Latin American region and advocating towards the promotion and monitoring for the equality in rights for gay men and men who have sex with other men as well as other relevant issues through the debate with Mexican activists and members of GayLatino.
&nbsp; Members of the Executive Board, Advisory Board and Secretariat of GayLatino participated as well as activitsts and guests who, due to their experience and field of knowledge or representation, contributed to the analysis and discussion during the debates and panels.
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&nbsp; The new Executive Board members of the network are: Sim&oacute;n Cazal, from Paraguay as General Secretary of the GayLatino network, Norman Guti&eacute;rrez, from Nicaragua, Treasurer, Jorge Saavedra, from Mexico, Chair, Toni Reis, from Brazil, Chair, Gustavo Vald&eacute;s Pi, from Cuba, Chair, Ronald C&eacute;spedes, from Bolivia, Records Secretary and finally, Esteban Paulon, from Argentina, President of the Executive Board.
<h4> GayLatino Award 2016</h4>
As one of the pioneering gay activists in Mexico and because of his constant work during decades that has inspired and served as ground for the advances in equality of rights for LGBT people in the region, a tribute to Juan Jacobo Her&aacute;ndez Ch&aacute;vez was made and he was awarded the first GayLatino Award 2016 for his long and commited trajectory in activism.
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&nbsp; The Second Regional Meeting of GayLatino CDM 2016 gathered activits and leaders of 19 countries with important talk, panels and debates, the event was a trend in social media; Trending Topic in Twitter in Mexico and more than 50,000 people reached through Facebook with more than 10,000 plays on live transmissions.
&nbsp; GayLatino has mission is the promote and defend freedom, equality and equity, access to integral health, justice and education, for the full exercise, free from discrimination and violence, of human rights of latino gay men and other men who have sex with other men.
&nbsp; To read the Declaration of Mexico, <a href="/infonews/infodetalle/declaration-of-mexico-second-meeting-of-gaylatino" target="_blank">click here</a>. Watch the videos of talks and debates <a href="https://www.facebook.com/redgaylatino" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;

Latin America united in the Second Regional Meeting GayLatino 2016

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With the motto &ldquo;It is not necessary to accept but you must respect&rdquo;, the movie shows in an unusual way the importance to fight against intolerance of any kind and it teaches that respect is the best way of coping with differences.
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The script presents a simple scene: a family dinner where the mother-in-law offers a dish with aubergines among the ingredients to the son-in-law. The young man, after saying he &ldquo;hates augbergines&rdquo;, he imagines himself commiting all kinds of atrocities against the vegetable, which is cruelly drowned, stabbed, trampled, hunted and exploited.
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When returning to real life, a simple &ldquo;no, thank you&rdquo;, reinforces the correct form of dealing against what one does not agree. &ldquo;I always thought it was suspicious how some people deal with differences, especially those regarding sexual orientation. What is the justification for a person to waste energy to attack, verbal or physically, to somebody who does not please his or her preferences? Maybe that person is not so sure of his or her options&rdquo;, reflects Renato Cavalher, creator of the movie.
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&ldquo;It is obvious we cannot agree on the way of living of other people. I am in favor of all rights and justice. We must not discriminate. We must respect not only religion and color, but also sexual orientation,&rdquo; remarks Toni Reis, Executive Director and Founder of Grupo Dignidade.
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Brazilian campaign adresses in an unusual way the serious problem of intolerance.

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<h4>We thank this invitation. In the first place, we express our solidarity with our Mexican brothers and therefore we request:</h4>
 - The Congress of Mexico to call for immediate approval of the initiative for constitutional reform for the rights of LGBT people in this country as well as the bill for the reform of the federal civil code to recognize equal marriage.
 - For the first time a Latin American city to be seat of Gay Games and that seat to be the city of Guadalajara, Mexico.

<h4>We also reached to a consensus for the following declaration:</h4>

- We are very worried about the escalation of violence and hate crimes towards LGBTI individuals (especially transvestite and transexual people), the regression in equalitarian rights in several countries and the cuts in policies towards our population.
 - We demand the end of institutional violence towards our community.
 - The escalation of conservative fundamentalism has increased hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity of their expressions, inmprisonments, persecutions, agressions, murders and other violent events at a regional level, situation that puts into evidence the urgent need to guarantee the principle of secularism of the States.
 - The advance of predominant and fundamentalist churches in some governments of the region puts away our long-sought desire of laicity of States and democracys must not be subject to religious institutions or mandates.
 - We express our solidarity and we support all our transexual, transvestite, transgender, lesbian, gay and bisexual fellows of the region that have suffered any kind of violence.
 - &nbsp;We demand the judicial institutions of the region to take all necessary measures to end the violence escalation towards our community and the clarification of all hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity or their expression.
 - The Latin American region is still facing everyday challenges to the well-being of our community: discrimination, stigma to gay and bisexual men and men who have sex with other men and the impact of HIV. These issues and their intersection determine the spheres of health, education, individual and colective security, access to justice, the persistance of discriminatory laws and policies and the role of States.
 - Being our voice latin, black, aboriginal, anti-patriarchal and de-colonizing, we reach it from this site to relate ourselves with activism, politics, governments, internacional organizations and our own community as a differentiating signature for our theoretical and political elaboration.
 - Latin America is a continent that, from its history, reveals opression and marginalization that runs through our bodies, languages, spiritualities and forms of socialization many of them generated by which colonization that put in our roots discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, identity and gender expression, reality that affects the exercise of rights of our communities.
 - While equal marriage has been achieved in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay and Colombia, which represents an emblematic advance of our movement, it is necessary to extend those achievements to all countries in the region and promote the right to conform our families freely. Equal marriage is an advance but it does not constitute the only goal in our community's agenda.
 - We demand the States of the region to enact Gender Identity acts for the full recognition of transvestite, transexual and transgender people.
 - We condemn the fallacious argument on &ldquo;gender ideology&rdquo; that conservative people and religious fanatics employ to eliminate public programs, overturn laws or attack public policies and organizations throughout the region.
 - Violence and discrimination are sustained by patriarchy, male chauvinism and religious and ideological fundamentalism and perpetuate the suffering of our community and families and impede our full enjoyment of human rights trying to revert important achievements.
 - We claim the construction and experience of a non-binary sexuality and we fight for the respect of sexual and reproductive rights recognizing gender issues as a transversal axis for our objectives.
 - We are in favor and we promote scientific advances related to the control of HIV and Aids but we do not want a monopoly of patents nor the absence of our voice in the formation of public policies by States.
 - We are involved in stopping HIV transmission and we understand that it is necessary to define a new concept of safe sex.

- It is indispensable to strenghten regional leaderships with particular emphasis on youth and our ethnic and cultural diversity reaching the entire region and all parts of the world where there are Latino gay men. Thus, we consider necessary to call for a space that allows the building of necessary agreements to work jointly as well as revise work formats among the different leaderships, analize the current situation and identify the advocacy needs in regional politics to define strategies and activities towards the achievement of local, regional and global goals.
 - We have as a challenge to understand the particularities and needs of the new generations in order to strengthen those leaderships.
 - We must strenghten inter-generational exchange.
 - There is evidence that HIV affects disproportionately to our community and the responses to the pandemic have been insufficient and incomplete in our region. On the other hand, HIV reveals all vulnerabilities we continue to be exposed to in all aspects of our lives, therefore it is necessary for us to advocate in order to achieve access to all technologies for the prevention of HIV and other infections sexually transmitted.
 - Overdependence on financing system imposes arbitrary conditions to communities and they put in evidence the great inequality in the region, therefore it is necessary to advocate for the adoption of redistribution mechanisms of resources in countries of Latin America towards sustainability, particularly the response to HIV/Aids which affects differentially to our community.
 - We gay and bisexual latino men are still deprived of the full enjoyment of all human rights and civil guarantees including protection in our communities and equalitarian access to the highest level of healthcare and well-being, decent work, justice, education, nutrition, social services and protection against violence and discrimination.
 - We believe it is necessary to implement public policies that, in permanent dialogue and attending the demands of communities, contribute from state spaces concrete responses and programs to remove discriminatory barriers which cut back rights to gay and bisexual men everyday.
 - The production and access to cultural goods, the promotion of healthy habits as well as the practice of sports and adequate nutrition must be guaranteed.
 - It exists a high risk of absenteeism and desertion in all levels in the educational esphere as a consequence of bullying, and other forms of manifestion of stigma, discrimination and homophobia.
 - Many members of our community are also people with disabilities and therefore they require necessary infrastructure and public policies for their full development and respect to their dignity.

- We must claim for the respect of all identity and pleasure praxis that our bodies promote.
 - We are in favor of freedom of latino gay men of feeling, loving and being as they wish.
 - We claim our bodies as battle fields, love fields, desire fields and pleasure fields.
 - We recognize pleasure as part of our integrity as people, activists and leaders.
 - We claim our belonging to the network GayLatino whose mission is the promote and defend freedom, equality and equity, access to integral health, justice and education, for the full exercise, free from discrimination and violence, of human rights of latino gay men and other men who have sex with other men towards a Latin America which respects, protects and celebrates the life of this community defending equality, diversity and visibility.
<h4> Mexico City, november 4th 2016.</h4>

Declaration of Mexico - Second Meeting of GayLatino

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<h4 style="text-align: justify;">Agradeciendo esta invitaci&oacute;n, en primer lugar nos solidarizamos con nuestros hermanos mexicanos y solicitamos:</h4>
 - Que el Congreso de la Uni&oacute;n (de M&eacute;xico) incluya un llamado para la aprobaci&oacute;n inmediata a la iniciativa de reforma constitucional a favor de los derechos de las personas LGBT en este pa&iacute;s, asi como el proyeto de ley de reforma del codigo civil federal para el reconocimiento del matrimonio igualitario. - Que por primera vez una ciudad latinoamericana sea sede de los Gay Games, y que esa sede sea la Ciudad de Guadalajara, M&eacute;xico.

<h4 style="text-align: justify;">Tambi&eacute;n consensuamos la siguiente declaraci&oacute;n:</h4>
- Que vemos con enorme preocupaci&oacute;n la escalada de violencia y cr&iacute;menes de odio hacia el colectivo LGTBI (en particular a las personas travestis y transexuales), el retroceso en los derechos igualitarios en varios pa&iacute;ses, y el recorte de pol&iacute;ticas hacia nuestra poblaci&oacute;n. - Que exigimos el fin de la violencia institucional hacia nuestra comunidad. - Que la escalada del fundamentalismo conservador ha incrementado los cr&iacute;menes de odio por orientaci&oacute;n sexual e identidad de g&eacute;nero o su expresi&oacute;n, los encarcelamientos, persecuciones, agresiones, asesinatos y otros hechos de violencia a nivel regional, situaci&oacute;n que pone en evidencia la urgente necesidad de garantizar el principio de laicidad de los Estados. - Que el avance de las iglesias predominantes y fundamentalistas en algunos gobiernos de la regi&oacute;n alejan nuestro ansiado deseo de Estados Laicos y que las democracias no pueden ser tuteladas por instituciones o mandatos religiosos. - Que nos solidarizamos y apoyamos a todas las compa&ntilde;eras y compa&ntilde;eros transexuales, travestis y transg&eacute;nero, lesbianas, gays y bisexuales de la regi&oacute;n que han sufrido cualquier tipo de violencia. - Que exigimos a las instituciones judiciales de los pa&iacute;ses de la regi&oacute;n las medidas necesarias para acabar con la escalada de violencia hacia nuestra comunidad y el esclarecimiento de todos los cr&iacute;menes de odio por orientaci&oacute;n sexual e identidad de g&eacute;nero o su expresi&oacute;n. - Que la regi&oacute;n latinoamericana sigue enfrentando cada d&iacute;a retos definitorios en el bienestar de nuestra comunidad: la discriminaci&oacute;n y el estigma a los hombres gays, bisexuales y otros hombres que tienen sexo con hombres y el impacto del VIH. Estas cuestiones y su intersecci&oacute;n determinan las esferas de la salud, la educaci&oacute;n, la seguridad individual y colectiva, el acceso a la justicia, la persistencia de pol&iacute;ticas y leyes discriminatorias, y el rol de los Estados. - Que siendo nuestra voz latina, negra, ind&iacute;gena, antipatriarcal y descolonizante, desde este lugar levantamos esa voz para relacionarnos con el activismo, la pol&iacute;tica, los gobiernos, los organismos internacionales y nuestra propia comunidad como un sello distinto para nuestra elaboraci&oacute;n te&oacute;rica y pol&iacute;tica. - Que Am&eacute;rica Latina es un continente que, desde su historia, evidencia opresi&oacute;n y marginalidad, traspasando nuestros cuerpos, idiomas, espiritualidades y formas de socializaci&oacute;n, muchas de ellas generadas por la colonizaci&oacute;n, que arraig&oacute; en nuestros pa&iacute;ses la discriminaci&oacute;n por orientaci&oacute;n sexual, identidad y expresi&oacute;n de g&eacute;nero, realidad que afecta el ejercicio de los derechos de nuestras comunidades. - Que si bien el matrimonio igualitario ha sido conquistado en Argentina, Brasil, M&eacute;xico, Uruguay y Colombia, lo cual representa un avance emblem&aacute;tico de nuestro movimiento, es necesario extender este logro a todos los pa&iacute;ses de la regi&oacute;n y promover el derecho a la libertad de conformar nuestras familias. Que el matrimonio igualitario es un avance pero que de ninguna manera es la &uacute;nica meta que nuestra comunidad tiene en su agenda. - Que exigimos a los estados de la regi&oacute;n que promulguen leyes de Identidad de G&eacute;nero para el pleno reconocimiento de las personas travestis, transexuales y transg&eacute;neros. - Que condenamos la falaz argumentaci&oacute;n sobre la "ideolog&iacute;a de g&eacute;nero" que usan los conservadores y fan&aacute;ticos religiosos varios para borrar programas p&uacute;blicos, derogar leyes o atacar pol&iacute;ticas p&uacute;blicas y organizaciones a lo largo de la regi&oacute;n. - Que la violencia y la discriminaci&oacute;n se sostienen en el patriarcado, el machismo y los fundamentalismos religiosos e ideol&oacute;gicos, y perpet&uacute;an el sufrimiento de nuestra comunidad y nuestras familias e impide que accedamos al pleno goce de nuestros derechos humanos, pretendiendo a veces hacer revertir importantes conquistas. - Que reivindicamos la construcci&oacute;n y vivencia de una sexualidad no binaria y bregamos por el respeto a los derechos sexuales y los derechos reproductivos, reconociendo la cuesti&oacute;n del g&eacute;nero como un eje transversal para la consecuci&oacute;n de nuestros objetivos. - Que estamos a favor y promovemos los avances cient&iacute;ficos en relaci&oacute;n al control del VIH y el Sida pero no queremos monopolio de patentes ni la ausencia de nuestra voz en la formaci&oacute;n de las pol&iacute;ticas p&uacute;blicas que lleven adelante los Estados. - Que estamos involucrados en el freno de la transmisi&oacute;n del VIH y que entendemos que es necesario definir un nuevo concepto sobre el sexo seguro. - Que es imprescindible fortalecer los liderazgos regionales con particular &eacute;nfasis en las juventudes y en nuestra diversidad &eacute;tnica y cultural, con alcances en toda la regi&oacute;n y en cualquier parte del mundo donde haya presencia de gays latinos. Y que por ello, vemos necesario convocar a un espacio que permita construir los acuerdos necesarios para trabajar de manera articulada, as&iacute; como revisar formatos de trabajo entre los distintos liderazgos, analizar la situaci&oacute;n actual e identificar las necesidades de incidencia pol&iacute;tica regional para definir las estrategias y actividades que coadyuven en la consecuci&oacute;n de metas locales, regionales y globales. - Que tenemos como desaf&iacute;o para fortalecer esos liderazgos entender las particularidades de las nuevas generaciones y sus necesidades. - Que debemos fortalecer el intercambio generacional. - Que existe evidencia de que el VIH afecta desproporcionadamente a nuestra comunidad y que las respuestas dadas a la pandemia han sido insuficientes e incompletas en nuestra regi&oacute;n. Por otro lado, el VIH revela las vulnerabilidades a las que seguimos expuestos en todos los aspectos de nuestras vidas, por lo que es necesario incidir para el acceso a todas las tecnolog&iacute;as de prevenci&oacute;n del VIH y dem&aacute;s infecciones de transmisi&oacute;n sexual. - Que la sobredependencia de sistemas de financiamiento imponen condiciones arbitrarias a las comunidades y pone en evidencia la enorme desigualdad en la regi&oacute;n; por lo que es necesario abogar por la adopci&oacute;n de mecanismos de redistribuci&oacute;n de los recursos en los pa&iacute;ses de Am&eacute;rica Latina con miras a la sustentabilidad, particularmente de la respuesta al VIH/Sida que afecta diferencialmente a nuestra comunidad. - Que a los hombres latinos gays, bisexuales y otros hombres que tienen sexo con hombres, nos siguen privando del pleno goce de todos los derechos humanos y garant&iacute;as civiles, incluyendo la protecci&oacute;n dentro de nuestras comunidades y el acceso igualitario al m&aacute;s alto nivel de salud y bienestar, el trabajo digno, la justicia, la educaci&oacute;n, la nutrici&oacute;n, los servicios sociales y la protecci&oacute;n contra la violencia y la discriminaci&oacute;n. - Que creemos necesario la implementaci&oacute;n de pol&iacute;ticas p&uacute;blicas que en di&aacute;logo permanente y atendiendo a las demandas de las comunidades, aporten desde los espacios estatales respuestas y programas concretos para remover barreras discriminatorias que cercenan derechos a varones gays, &nbsp;bisexuales y otros hombres que tienen sexo con hombres cada d&iacute;a. - Que se debe garantizar la producci&oacute;n y el acceso a los bienes culturales y la promoci&oacute;n de h&aacute;bitos saludables, incluida la pr&aacute;ctica de deportes y la alimentaci&oacute;n adecuada. - Que existe un alto riesgo de ausentismo y deserci&oacute;n en todos los niveles del &aacute;mbito educativo a consecuencia del bullying o acoso escolar y otras formas de manifestaci&oacute;n del estigma, la discriminaci&oacute;n y la homofobia. - Que muchos miembros de nuestra comunidad son tambi&eacute;n personas con discapacidad, por lo que requieren de la infraestructura y las pol&iacute;ticas p&uacute;blicas necesarias para su desarrollo pleno y el respeto de su dignidad. - Que debemos bregar por el respeto a todas las praxis identitarias y de placer que nuestros cuerpos promuevan. - Que estamos por la libertad de los varones gays latinos, bisexuales y otros hombres que tienen sexo con hombres, a sentir, amar y ser como cada uno lo desee. - Que reivindicamos nuestros cuerpos como campos de batalla, campos de amor, campos de deseo, y campos de placer. - Que reconocemos el placer como parte de nuestra integridad como personas, como activistas y como l&iacute;deres. - Que reivindicamos nuestra pertenencia a la red GayLatino, cuya misi&oacute;n es la promoci&oacute;n y defensa de la libertad, la igualdad y la equidad; el acceso a la salud integral, la justicia y la educaci&oacute;n; para el pleno ejercicio, libre de discriminaci&oacute;n y violencia, de los derechos humanos de hombres gays latinos, bisexuales y otros hombres que tienen sexo con hombres en pos de una Latinoam&eacute;rica que respeta, protege y celebra la vida de esta comunidad defendiendo la igualdad, la diversidad y la visibilidad.

<h4 style="text-align: justify;">Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, 4 de noviembre de 2016</h4>

Declaración de México - II Encuentro GayLatino

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Los principales objetivos del encuentro fueron analizar y promover la defensa y vigilancia de los derechos humanos de hombres gays y otros hombres que tienen sexo con otros hombres en la regi&oacute;n latinoamericana e incidir en la promoci&oacute;n y vigilancia para la igualdad de derechos de hombres gays y otros hombres que tienen sexo con otros hombres, as&iacute; como otros temas relevantes, a trav&eacute;s del debate con activistas mexicanos y los miembros de GayLatino.
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Participaron miembros del Comit&eacute; Directivo, del Comit&eacute; Asesor y del Secretariado de GayLatino, as&iacute; mismo estuvieron participando personas y activistas invitados, que por su experiencia y &aacute;rea de conocimiento o su representaci&oacute;n aportaron a los an&aacute;lisis y debates que se llevaron a cabo durante los debates y paneles.
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El nuevo Comit&eacute; Ejecutivo de la red est&aacute; se encuentra integrado por Sim&oacute;n Cazal, de Paraguay como Secretario General de la Red GayLatino; Norman Guti&eacute;rrez, de Nicaragua, Tesorero; Jorge Saavedra, de M&eacute;xico, Vocal; Toni Reis, de Brasil, Vocal; Gustavo Vald&eacute;s Pi, de Cuba, Vocal; Ronald C&eacute;spedes, de Bolivia, Secretario de Actas y finalmente Esteban Paul&oacute;n, de Argentina, Presidente del Comit&eacute; Ejecutivo.

<h4>Premio GayLatino 2016</h4>
Por ser uno de los pioneros del activismo gay en M&eacute;xico, as&iacute; como por su constante trabajo que por d&eacute;cadas ha inspirado y servido de base a los avances en materia de igualdad de derechos para las poblaciones LGBT en nuestra regi&oacute;n, se rindi&oacute; un homenaje al maestro Juan Jacobo Hern&aacute;ndez Ch&aacute;vez, donde se le otorg&oacute; el Primer Premio GayLatino 2016 por su extensa y comprometida trayectoria en el activismo.
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El II Encuentro Regional de GayLatino CDMX 2016 condens&oacute; a activistas y l&iacute;deres de 19 pa&iacute;ses con importantes charlas, paneles y debates, el evento fue tendencia en redes sociales; Trending Topic en Twitter de M&eacute;xico y m&aacute;s de 50.000 personas alcanzadas en Facebook con m&aacute;s de 10.000 reproducciones en transmisiones en vivo.
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GayLatino tiene como misi&oacute;n promover y defender la libertad, la igualdad y la equidad; el acceso a la salud integral, la justicia y la educaci&oacute;n; para el pleno ejercicio, libre de discriminaci&oacute;n y violencia de los derechos humanos de hombres gays latinos y otros hombres que tienen sexo con hombres.
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Para leer la declaraci&oacute;n de M&eacute;xico, <a href="/infonoticias/infodetalle/declaracion-de-mexico-ii-encuentro-gaylatino" target="_blank">click aqu&iacute;</a>. Mir&aacute; los videos de las charlas y debates <a href="https://www.facebook.com/redgaylatino">aqu&iacute;</a>.

Noticias

Latin America united in the Second Regional Meeting GayLatino 2016

10 nov 2016

Brazilian campaign adresses in an unusual way the serious problem of intolerance.

10 nov 2016

Declaration of Mexico - Second Meeting of GayLatino

10 nov 2016

Declaración de México - II Encuentro GayLatino

08 nov 2016

América Latina unida en el II Encuentro Regional GayLatino 2016

08 nov 2016