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ES What was your first kiss like... A young lesbian's experience?
I had thought that the best option was to erase that first kiss. All I could think about was what a disappointment it would be for my family. Also, I felt strange: as if something was wrong with me and made me different from the others. I replayed the scene over and over again in my mind: I had [...]
What is the colour of your truth?
The Truth Commission launches an entertaining digital quiz to show Colombians what the colour of their truth would look like The Truth Commission launches an entertaining digital quiz to show Colombians what the colour of their truth would look like It is a virtual experiment designed by the Truth Commission and Pacifista. [...]
The daughter, sister, granddaughter...the lesbian
By: Maria Ximena I had remembered our place and the sunset falling with warm orange shades, warning us that we had to leave and return to our reality. You in your house pretending that everything was fine and me in mine saying that I was late because I had to do university work. With the fear of [...]
Now or never: CEV's historic opportunity to shed light on what happened to LGBT people in the Colombian conflict
With 30 cases documented and analysed in Pasto, Tumaco, Putumayo and the south of Tolima, the report by Colombia Diversa entitled "Who is going to tell us?" calls on the Truth Commission to be the first of its kind in the world to tell, in depth and in the voice of [...]
"The risk of defending and leading
Common patterns and differential impacts on human rights violations against human rights defenders in Colombia. "The risk of defending and leading" is a report on the work of individuals, communities and organisations that defend rights and vindicate social causes in Colombia, in which violations of their human rights are addressed.
Lots of ding, ding and no popsicles: how is LGBT public policy doing at the national level?
Civil society took part in a hearing in the Congress of the Republic to make known their perception of the lengthy process of implementing the LGBT public policy. All in the midst of a context in which this population is the target of acts of discrimination and violence that are not investigated or, in their [...]
To my uncle, the faggot of the family
I was always afraid of becoming like you, Uncle Bernardo. I was terrified that I was going to grow old alone, like a depraved man who screwed everyone and at every social gathering turned into a madwoman. You, great-uncle Bernardo, became the epitome of what I hated. The hatred for [...]
#LuisNoEstásSolo: Reflections on the case of the young man who had his arm removed because he was gay
It would seem that the story of a young man having part of his arm removed just for being gay is fiction, a story from another era or from a country like Russia, Egypt or the Cayman Islands, where LGBT people are still criminalised. But no. The story is real and it happened in [...]
She loves art, she loves women and the strokes are her revolution.
The act of having a purifying experience of the emotions, of the soul or of the being itself, is called catharsis. That was what Linda Cabrera did every time she wrote one of her stories, an almost poetic fiction in which she wrote about another woman, about what she felt for her, about her desires. She wrote [...]
Colombia Diversa to implement remote work as a containment measure for COVID-19
In the midst of the current situation, following the emergence of COVID-19, Colombia Diversa will implement remote work from Tuesday 17 March 2020 until 13 April (as a tentative date). As a measure of solidarity and responsibility in the face of the pandemic, we have decided that as a social human rights organisation we will take the [...]
