Government officials and political leaders from the LGBTI community (lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender and intersexual) from Latin America and the Caribbean will participate this week in Santo Domingo in a conference about political leadership.
The III Meeting of LGBTI Political Leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean will have the theme of “Democracy for Equality” and will take place on 31 March and 1 April 2017, with more than 200 LGBTI leaders. This meeting will be preceded by a national meeting for LGBTI political leaders of the Dominican Republic, scheduled for 30 March.
Present at the activity will be Carmen Munoz, deputy minister of Government and Policy from Costa Rica; deputies Manuel Canelas (Bolivia), Tamara Adrian and Rosmit Mantilla (Venezuela), Martin Couto (Uruguay), Benjamín Medrano (Mexico) and Sandra Moran (Guatemala); Senator Desiree Sousa de Croes (Aruba) and Congress members Diane Rodriguez (Ecuador) and Alberto de Belaunde (Peru).
According to the organizers, some five years ago one could count on one hand the number of open LGBTI elected government officials in Latin America and the Caribbea and now there are more than 70, and still increasing.
Read more in Spanish:
Al Momento
Liderazgo LGBT
28 March 2017
