Argentina

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  Meet Argentina’s first transgender police chief

  Friday, May 12, 2017

  She served in Argentina's federal police for 20 years, but when she came out as a transgender woman, they forced her to resign.

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  Did the White House put the kibosh on humanitarian honor for Jimmy Carter?

  Monday, May 1, 2017

  The fragile ego of the leader of the free world apparently couldn't stand the idea of a former president sharing his spotlight.

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  Trump’s roll-back of transgender rights causes worldwide scare

  Saturday, February 25, 2017

  Activists in Ireland are worried about how transphobes will be emboldened by Trump's actions.

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  Watch: President Obama dances the tango in Argentina

  Thursday, March 24, 2016

  During yesterday's state dinner in Argentina, the Commander-In-Chief found himself following someone else's lead.

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  Argentine president blasts incoming leaders in final speech

  Thursday, December 10, 2015

  For 12 years, President Cristina Fernandez rewrote the country's social contract, and they legalized gay marriage as early as 2010.

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  Cross-dressing Argentine girl sign of hope for transgender community

  Wednesday, November 4, 2015

  Luana had to fight to be a girl. She was born a boy, and struggled with a world that insisted that was what she must be.

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  Argentinian judges reduce rapist’s sentence ‘because six-year-old victim was gay’

  Tuesday, May 19, 2015

  The child had a "homosexual orientation," Argentinian appeal court judges said in their ruling as they reduced the prison sentence for Mario Tolosa from six years to 38 months

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  Argentine president to be godmother to lesbian couple’s baby

  Friday, April 4, 2014

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez has agreed to be the godmother of a lesbian couple's baby in a Roman Catholic cathedral.

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  Russian gay couple marries in Buenos Aires, will seek asylum in Argentina

  Tuesday, February 25, 2014

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A same-sex couple from Russia's Olympic city of Sochi has married in Buenos Aires and plan to seek asylum in Argentina.

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  Argentina’s gay community not thrilled with selection of new pope

  Friday, March 15, 2013

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — While the appointment of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as pope has filled many in this deeply Catholic country with pride, members of the gay community are unsurprisingly less than enthusiastic with the Vatican's

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