Cabinet Chief’s Office, Anibal Fernandez, received today the maximum regarding of the Comunidad Homosexual Argentina (CHA) under 25 years of work of the organization, the oldest in the country.

“For the first time in history that an official of that rank receives an organization of gays, lesbians, transvestites, transsexual and bisexual (LGBT),” said Cesar Cigliutti, president of the CHA.

The leader said it was “a very cordial meeting, very friendly, where we put all the issues and talk about all the laws that are in the Chamber of Deputies.

Besides Cigliutti participated in the meeting with the chief minister of the CHA secretary Marcelo Suntheim, Pedro Paradiso Sottile, PGR and Stephen Barris, representative of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, an organization world dedicated to achieving equal rights for the LGBT community.

In this area, CHA raised the need for approval of amendments to the National Anti-Discrimination Act, the Civil Marriage Act, the National Civil Union law, the law of Gender Identity and the resolution of the Ministry of Health nation that prohibits homosexuals from donating blood.

Furthermore, concerning the CHA asked Fernandez to repeal or Misdemeanor Offenses Codes Provincials.

“Fernandez told us that he had sent letters to some governors about this issue and some of them were answering for disposal. The truth is great news for us,” said Cigliutti.

The Homosexual Community of Argentina was established on 16 April 1984 and is the oldest LGBT organization in the country.

Among other achievements, Cigliutti recalled that the CHA is Nro.1004 author of the Civil Union Act of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the first legal recognition of same-sex couples in Latin America and Caribbean in 2002.

Also conducts from 1987la campaign stops in momentum across the country and historically the pension on death for same-sex couples, granted by decree of the Executive in 2008.

The CHA is comprised of gay, lesbian, transvestite, transsexual and bisexual people working pro-bono for non-discrimination against people because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.