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The blogger and feminist lawyer Verónica Rivera Torres writes about legislation that seeks to extend the Domestic Violence Act (Act 54) in Puerto Rico for same-sex couples:

As our Supreme Court ruled that the Law of Prevention and Intervention in Domestic Violence, known as Act 54, does not apply to same-sex couples individuals and human rights groups have been waiting for the historic moment we are witnessing today.

In the end, after ten long years, the legislator Luis Vega Ramos has filed a measure to clarify what for many was clear from that Law 54 was created: the protection of all victims of domestic violence, regardless of their sexual orientation , marital status and gender identity.

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La blogger Yasmín S. Portales comenta sobre los desafíos de la cartografía de la blogosfera cubana, incluyendo absolutamente todo lo escrito en blogs. Este es su proyecto más reciente:

Un directorio es un mapa: están los pantanos de batallas gloriosas y las montañas de infamia. Está todo, o no es un mapa. O sea, que no hay mapa de la blogosfera cubana.

Peor: La blogosfera cubana es caótica. Por suerte yo no pretendo hallarle sentido, solo revelar sus numeritos actuales.

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"Good news Pamiris," writes [ru] Bektour Iskender, President of Kloop Media, a news portal and blogging platform Kyrgyzstan. "Wikipedia has given [in] permission to start a Shughni version of the site. "El Shughni is one of the main languages ​​spoken in the province of Gorno Badakhshan (GBAO), a remote part of eastern Tajikistan dominated by the mountains Pamir. Iskender helped local Internet users to present the request to create a section of Wikipedia Shughni after another training session media in Khorog, the administrative capital of the province , more than two years. "Now begins the small detail of the embodiment [Wikipedia Shughni]. But I can not help you there, since I do not know a word of the language, "he says.

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On the occasion of the celebration of Mother's Day, Sunday May 12, feminist activist Amarilis Pagan writes about the experience of telling his mother that he was in love with another woman:

The day I told my mom I was in love with a woman, she screamed long and heartbreaking. It was as if someone had told him that his daughter was dead ... and to some extent I think that something like this happened. Something inside me died, and something inside her died also. She never accepted my relationship, and love that filled my life for so many years is still unknown to her.

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