Gender, Sexuality, Film, and Media in Latin America

Latin America is a region of contradictions in terms of gender and sexuality.While the United States failed to elect its first female president in 2016, Latin America has seen more female presidents than any other part of the world, starting with Isabel Perón in 1974 and continuing with a boom in female political leaders between 1990 and 2018.While some, such as the anti-Sandinista Violeta Chamorro in Nicaragua in 1990, represented a setback for progressive forces, others symbolized their advance.Some made women's rights and gender equality a priority.Chile's Michelle Bachelet worked to legalize abortion against strong opposition.Under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's leadership, in 2012 Argentina passed the most progressive gender-identity law in the world, requiring doctors to provide free hormone treatments and gender-reassignment surgery and allowing people to change their gender on official documents even without surgery. 1Since then, many laws to protect LGBTQ+ communities, among them equal marriage and adoption, have been approved throughout the region.However, Latin America is also home to 7 of the 10 countries with the highest rates of femicide and one of the most precarious regions in terms of LGBTQ+ discrimination.While abortion still remains illegal in seven Latin American countries, thanks to the powerful "Green Wave" feminist movement that began in Argentina in 2018 and has spread to several other countries women stand poised to win their battle (against the dual logics of Catholicism and patriarchy) for full reproductive rights over their bodies. 2 In spite of persistent inequality and marginalization, women and LGBTQ+ communities have played a crucial, steady role in Latin American activism and resistance movements in the wake of the human rights violations committed during the 1970s and 1980s.Women occupy a wide range of roles in the power structures in contemporary Latin American democracies: as former guerrilla combatants

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