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Lohana Berkins
Lohana Berkins is an Argentine transvestite activist, and a recipient of the 2003 Felipa de Souza Award for LGBT civil rights activism from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). She is also a prominent member of the Communist Party of Argentina.
Background
Berkins was thrown out of her family's home at 13 and began working as a sex worker to survive. She spent about nine years of her life in prison, but none of her arrests were for prostitution, which is not a crime in Argentina. Instead, laws criminalize behavior that creates a "public scandal." These laws ...
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