Estar&aacute;n en vivo importantes artistas como Andrea Valobra, Oscar Fadlala, The Walkers, EEEKS, Pach&iacute;n Centuri&oacute;n, Seismorocho, Fabu, Tender Cage y Skylark Western.
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El Festival por la Igualdad fue realizado por primera vez con mucho &eacute;xito en el a&ntilde;o 2010. La intenci&oacute;n de este festival surgi&oacute; en respuesta a la agresiva campa&ntilde;a en aquella &eacute;poca &ldquo;Queremos pap&aacute; y mam&aacute;&rdquo; emprendida por sectores conservadores de nuestra sociedad, quienes han atacado a la libertad y la igualdad de toda la ciudadan&iacute;a paraguaya.
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En nuestro pa&iacute;s se siguen produciendo casos - aunque cada vez en menor medida - en los cuales personas LGBT son molestadas por agentes del orden en lugares p&uacute;blicos por demostrar afecto a su pareja o amistad del mismo sexo. En primer lugar hay que recordar lo m&aacute;s importante: en Paraguay, ser una persona LGBT no es un delito y nadie puede amenazar con represalias de ning&uacute;n tipo por serlo.
&nbsp; Hoy en d&iacute;a existen iniciativas que promueven la igualdad, como el local <a href="https://www.facebook.com/752861308152252/photos/a.753383304766719.1073741829.752861308152252/867306446707737/?type=3&amp;theater">&ldquo;Medialunas Calentitas&rdquo;</a> que afirm&oacute; su postura en contra a la discriminaci&oacute;n, y tambi&eacute;n el grupo de j&oacute;venes autodenominados <a href="https://www.facebook.com/asunciondecolores/?fref=ts">&ldquo;Asunci&oacute;n de Colores&rdquo;</a> que buscan la libre expresi&oacute;n de las personas, quienes estar&aacute;n presentes durante el evento.
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El lema de celebraci&oacute;n es &ldquo;La Fiesta de Todos&rdquo;, de tal manera a lograr un festejo participativo e inclusivo en donde toda la ciudadan&iacute;a pueda disfrutar de las actividades que tendr&aacute;n como protagonista el Centro Hist&oacute;rico y la Costanera de Asunci&oacute;n.
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La <a href="http://cultura.asuncion.gov.py/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/diptico-actividades-Asu.pdf">agenda</a> completa se puede visualizar en la aplicaci&oacute;n bajo el nombre de ASU479 para el sistema Android, habilitada desde el mi&eacute;rcoles 10 de agosto.

Vuelve el Festival de la Igualdad para sumarse a la celebración del 479º aniversario de Asunción

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Many important artists such as Andrea Valobra, Oscar Fadlala, The Walkers, EEEKs, Pach&iacute;n Centuri&oacute;n, Seismorocho, Fabu, Tender Cage and Skylark Western will be performing a live concert.
&nbsp; The Festival for Equality was held the first time in 2010. The festival was a response to the aggressive campaign &ldquo;We want a dad and a mom&rdquo; pursued by conservative sectors of our society who attacked the liberty and equality of all Paraguayan public.
&nbsp; In our country there are still cases -even though in a smaller scale- in which LGBT people are harassed by law enforcement officers because of showing affection in public spaces to partners or friends of the same sex. In the first place, we have to recall the most important reminder: in Paraguay, being a LGBT person is not an offence and nobody can threaten with reprisals of any kind for that matter.
&nbsp; Today, there are initiatives promoting equality such as the store &ldquo;Medialunas Calentitas&rdquo; which state a posture against discrimination and also a group of youngsters called &ldquo;Asunci&oacute;n de Colores&rdquo; that seeks free expression of people and who will be attending the event.
&nbsp; This celebration&rsquo;s motto is &ldquo;The party of everyone&rdquo; so we can achieve a participatory and inclusive festive occasion where all citizens can enjoy the activities that will have the Historical Center and the Costanera de Asunci&oacute;n as main characters. &nbsp; The complete agenda can be seen in the application under the name of ASU479 for Android systems accessible from Wednesday August 10th.

Festival for Equality joins the celebration of the 479th anniversary of Asuncion city

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM II, was first published in 1968, in the context of a relatively new science such as psychiatry which was still undertaking its first modern steps. Today, decades later, the list has been, and is permanently modified with additions, subtractions and unions, as knowledge advances thanks to further research. We must remember the paradigmatic case of "female hysteria", a supposed disease of common diagnosis until the nineteenth century, and the "drapetomania", a false mental illness, also from the nineteenth century, supposedly afflicting black slaves who wanted to be free.
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As hysteria and drapetomania, we see that the initial consensus as to what was a "normal" behavior was based more on power and dogma rather than a disinterested and impartial search of knowledge for the benefit of the mankind. &nbsp; The scientific approach to human sexuality is also quite recent in the history of humankind (19th century) and it had to slowly cut ties with dogmas of mainstream religions. In the beginnings, a vision of taboo and sin permeated the first steps towards understanding mental and sexual health. Stigma acquired different names throughout history: from sin to illness, but it was the courage of the first researchers who managed to deconstruct dogmas that allowed to study reality. The French philosopher Michel Foucault coined the term biopower, control of the bodies of a population; births, deaths, reproduction and disease. "Sex was a means of access both to the life of the body and the life of the species. It was employed as a standard for the disciplines and as a basis for regulations" the thinker of the nineteenth century said. &nbsp; One of the first most famous studies affirming that homosexuality is not a pathology was the famous research by American psychologist Evelyn Hooker (1956) where gay and heterosexual men were studied in their psychological adjustment. The novelty of this study at the time was that different experts agreed on data analysis without knowing in advance the sexuality of individuals. The conclusion was devastating: the psychologists could not distinguish the heterosexual group from the gay one based on the results. Countless studies continue later, again refuting the myth of homosexuality as a disease. &nbsp; On the other hand, "Patterns of Sexual Behavior" (1951), a pioneering scientific text considered a classic that explores 191 different cultures as well as other animal species, showed that homosexual orientation is quite common and frequent in many cultures throughout the world and in animals. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Today, empirical evidence and professional standards do not consider homosexuality as a disease and the American Psychological Association shows concern about the supposed conversion therapies and their opposition to them. Electrical shocks, among other brutal methods without scientific support and contrary to human rights are the proposals of these therapies involving alleged threats to physical and mental health in addition to risk of death. Respected worldwide organizations as the Pan American Health Organization, the American Psychiatric Association and others say that these "treatments" do not have any medical support besides constituting a serious threat to the health and lives of people. &nbsp; Homophobia costs lives and families. The <a href="/uploads/Manual_LGBT_Paraguayo_2014.pdf" target="_blank">heterosexism</a> -an attitude that preaches heterosexuality as the only valid sexual orientation and acceptably- is rooted in hatred and bigotry and promote destructive behaviors that deny rights.

Discrimination as a social disease

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This Interagency Cooperation Agreement aims to develop actions in the areas of training and information on health and prevention, responsible behavior, gender equality, respect for human rights for the benefit of the Municipal Institution and citizenship in general.
&nbsp; For the opening ceremony, Simon Cazal gave the following words: "I thank the Mayor Mario Ferreiro for taking this historic step. Is the first time that the City of Asuncion is clearly committed to responding to a series of problems that all citizens in some way or another suffer in the city. The signing of this agreement is not an act that only benefit the LGBT community, is a first step towards several actions that will bring benefits to all people of Asuncion. "
&nbsp; Respect to the agreement, Mario Ferreiro said: "I participated a few weeks ago in La Paz, Bolivia, at an Annual Assembly of the Union of Capital Cities of Latin America with mayors of almost all Latin and Central America, and I found it very important to know that they hold such conventions and very interesting and concrete actions to promote non-discrimination as a crosscutting work in their respective municipalities. "
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&nbsp; "So today, more than signing an agreement, today I come to ratify my commitment to freedom, democracy and tolerance. I am very happy that identify me as the first mayor who signs an agreement of this kind with an organization that seriously expresses the need for an evolution in the sense of being more human and more tolerant&rdquo; concluded the mayor of Asuncion.
&nbsp; Currently, the city of Asuncion and the Central Department are the regions of the country that carry the highest number of new HIV infections and STIs. Through this agreement, as part of the global campaign of cities against HIV, Asuncion would be added soon to cities like Paris, Montevideo, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Rio and Santiago to sign a commitment to stop HIV by 2030.
&nbsp; These commitments focus on actions that seek to reduce the gap in access to treatment and HIV prevention through fixing, in turn, new goals for 2030. The aim 90-90-90: that is to get the 90% of people living with HIV know their HIV status, 90% of people who know their HIV status have access to treatment for HIV, and that 90% of people who live with HIV achieve an effective vir
Thus, the Municipality of Asuncion with SOMOSGAY as a member of civil society, seek to address social problems such as homophobia, sexism and discrimination and formalize a cooperative alliance to define the tasks at all levels, especially those related to areas that serve the most vulnerable aspects.

Historic signing of agreement between the Municipality of Asunción and SOMOSGAY

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El manual diagn&oacute;stico y estad&iacute;stico de trastornos mentales, DSM II, fue publicado por primera vez en 1968, en una ciencia relativamente nueva como la psiquiatr&iacute;a que a&uacute;n estaba emprendiendo sus primeros pasos modernos. Hoy, d&eacute;cadas despu&eacute;s, su lista se ha visto, y se ve permanentemente modificada, con adiciones, sustracciones y fusiones, seg&uacute;n avanza el conocimiento de la mano de investigaciones. Cabe destacar el caso paradigm&aacute;tico de la &ldquo;histeria femenina&rdquo;, una supuesta enfermedad de diagn&oacute;stico habitual hasta el siglo XIX y de la &ldquo;drapetom&iacute;a&rdquo;, enfermedad mental falsa, tambi&eacute;n del siglo XIX, que supuestamente aquejaba a los esclavos negros que deseaban ser libres.
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Como la histeria y la drapetom&iacute;a, vemos que los consensos iniciales en cuanto a lo que era un comportamiento &ldquo;normal&rdquo; se basaba m&aacute;s en poder y dogma antes que en emprendimientos desinteresados e imparciales en busca de un conocimiento lo m&aacute;s certero posible en beneficio de la humanidad entera.
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El abordaje cient&iacute;fico de la sexualidad humana es tambi&eacute;n bastante reciente en la historia humanidad (siglo XIX) y debi&oacute; desenmara&ntilde;arse de los dogmas de las religiones dominantes, que con una visi&oacute;n de tab&uacute; y pecado, impregnaron los primeros pasos hacia la comprensi&oacute;n de la salud mental y sexual humana. El estigma fue adquiriendo diferentes nombres en la historia: de pecado a enfermedad, pero no fue sino la valent&iacute;a de los primeros investigadores, que lograron deconstruir dogmas para enfrentarse a la realidad. El fil&oacute;sofo franc&eacute;s Michel Foucault acu&ntilde;&oacute; el t&eacute;rmino de biopoder, el control de los cuerpos de una poblaci&oacute;n; los nacimientos, muertes, reproducci&oacute;n y enfermedad. &ldquo;El sexo es a un tiempo, acceso a la vida del cuerpo y a la vida de la especie. Es utilizado como matriz de las disciplinas y principio de las regulaciones&rdquo;, dec&iacute;a el pensador del siglo XIX.
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Uno de los primeros estudios m&aacute;s famosos en afirmar que la homosexualidad no es una patolog&iacute;a fue la c&eacute;lebre investigaci&oacute;n realizada por la psic&oacute;loga estadounidense Evelyn Hooker (1956) en donde hombres gay y heterosexuales fueron estudiados en cuanto a su ajuste psicol&oacute;gico. La novedad de dicho estudio para la &eacute;poca fue que diferentes expertos concurrieron en el an&aacute;lisis de datos sin conocer de antemano la sexualidad de los individuos. La conclusi&oacute;n fue demoledora: los psic&oacute;logos no pudieron distinguir al grupo heterosexual del gay bas&aacute;ndose en los resultados. Incontables estudios seguir&iacute;an m&aacute;s adelante, nuevamente refutando el mito de la homosexualidad como enfermedad.
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Por otro lado, &ldquo;Patterns of Sexual Behavior&rdquo; (1951), un texto cient&iacute;fico pionero considerado un cl&aacute;sico que explora 191 culturas diferentes adem&aacute;s de otras especies animales, demostr&oacute; que la orientaci&oacute;n homosexual es bastante com&uacute;n y frecuente en numerosas culturas a lo largo del mundo y en animales.
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Hoy en d&iacute;a, la evidencia emp&iacute;rica y las normas profesionales no consideran la homosexualidad como una enfermedad y la Asociaci&oacute;n Americana de Psicolog&iacute;a demuestra preocupaci&oacute;n acerca de las supuestas terapias de conversi&oacute;n y su oposici&oacute;n a las mismas. Descargas el&eacute;ctricas, entre otros m&eacute;todos brutales, sin respaldo cient&iacute;fico y contrarios a los derechos humanos son las propuestas de estas supuestas terapias que suponen peligros para la salud f&iacute;sica y mental adem&aacute;s de riesgo de muerte. Organizaciones respetables a nivel mundial como la Organizaci&oacute;n Panamericana de la Salud, la Asociaci&oacute;n Americana de Psiquiatr&iacute;a entre otros afirman que dichos &ldquo;tratamientos&rdquo; no poseen ning&uacute;n sustento m&eacute;dico adem&aacute;s de que constituyen serias amenazas a la salud y vida de las personas.
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La homofobia s&iacute; cuesta vidas y familias. El <a href="/uploads/Manual_LGBT_Paraguayo_2014.pdf" target="_blank">heterosexismo</a> -actitud que predica la heterosexualidad como la &uacute;nica orientaci&oacute;n sexual v&aacute;lida y aceptable-, tiene sus bases en el odio y el fanatismo e impulsan conductas destructivas que siegan derechos.

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