Acción Gay

Acción Gay (stylized as Acciongay, lit. 'Gay Action'; officially Corporación Chilena de Prevención del Sida; lit. 'Chilean Corporation for AIDS Prevention'), formerly Sidacción, is a Chilean organization for the defense of LGBTQ rights.[1]

History

The group was founded on July 28, 1987, by a group of people who sought to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. This group formed in response to the sensationalist and homophobic information published in the press of the time, in addition to the lack of response to the issue by the authorities of the military dictatorship.[2][3] Among its founders were Gustavo Hermosilla and Marcos Becerra,[4][5] and its name was initially "Chilean Corporation against AIDS" (Spanish: Corporación Chilena contra el Sida; CCCS), later becoming "Chilean Corporation for AIDS Prevention" (Spanish: Corporación Chilena de Prevención del Sida; CChPS).[6] Its first headquarters, inaugurated in 1988, was located at Porvenir 464, in the commune of Santiago,[7] later moving to General Jofré 179.[8] The organization obtained legal personality through a decree from the Ministry of Justice on March 7, 1991.[9]

The group was part of the meeting called Lesbian-Homosexual Reflection of South America, held from November 24 to 28, 1992, in the Chilean town of Nos (San Bernardo), and which was the first meeting of LGBTQ groups in South America.[10]

Since 1999, the organization has carried out prevention campaigns with the Ministry of Health on the beaches of the Valparaíso Region during the summer vacation season; this activity has gained notoriety due to the presence of Condonito (lit. 'Little Condom') a corporeal costume representing a condom;[11] That same year, the group's headquarters was created in Valparaíso, being the first one installed outside the Chilean capital.[12]

On June 28, 2003, the group was one of the founding members of the Coordinadora GLTTB, a group of organizations that sought to jointly confront discrimination against LGBTQ people. The other founding groups were the Sindicato Afrodita, the Movimiento por la Diversidad Sexual, Cegal, the Grupo La Pintana, the Colectivo Lésbico Universitario, the Brigada Divine, the Comité de Izquierda por la Diversidad Sexual, the Movimiento Patria Gay, Agrugal, Domos, Afirmación Chile, Traves Chile, the Agrupación Juvenil Chicos Así, and the Agrupación por la Diversidad Sexual de San Bernardo.[13] In 2000, the corporation adopted the name "Sidacción", which in 2007 was replaced by "Acción Gay" (commonly stylized as "ACCIONGAY") as part of a public positioning strategy and to be a more easily pronounced brand.[6]

In August 2007, Acciongay inaugurated the country's first library dedicated primarily to LGBT content at its headquarters. This library was organized around its Documentation Center and the acquisition of publications abroad by its members.[14]

Until 2009, its headquarters were located at Toesca 2315.[15] On June 12 of that same year, they moved to their new premises at San Ignacio 165,[16] in a mansion built in 1913 by Manuel Cifuentes and which is protected as it is within the Typical Zone called "Barrio Dieciocho", declared in 1983. The mansion was restored with the group's own resources since 2008.[17]

In May 2013, it was one of the founding organizations of the Frente de la Diversidad Sexual, along with the Movimiento por la Diversidad Sexual, Todo Mejora, Fundación Iguales, Organización de Transexuales por la Dignidad de la Diversidad,[18] later joining Rompiendo el Silencio, Fundación Daniel Zamudio, Red de Psicólogos de la Diversidad Sexual, Somos Coquimbo, and Mogaleth.[19][20]

See also

References

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  2. ^ García, Soledad (2016). Ensayos sobre Artes Visuales Volumen V: Visualidades de la transición. Debates y procesos artísticos de los años 80 y 90 en Chile (in Spanish). LOM Ediciones. ISBN 978-956-00-0888-6.
  3. ^ Villarroel, Richard (June 30, 2005). "Programa de intervención comunitaria para la prevención del VIH/SIDA en hombres homosexuales en Chile". horizonteenfermeria.uc.cl (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on June 27, 2024. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  4. ^ "Vivo con VIH hace 30 años". La Tercera (in European Spanish). 2019-04-05. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
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  6. ^ a b "Modelo de Gestión Centro Comunitario de la Diversidad Sexual 2010-2014" (PDF). www.subdere.gov.cl. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  7. ^ Toledo, Juan Luis Salinas (2019-11-13). El peso de la sangre: Viaje personal al SIDA (in Spanish). DEBATE. ISBN 978-956-6042-16-7.
  8. ^ Ardila, Henry (1999). Estrategias y lineamientos para la acción en VIH/SIDA con HSH (in Spanish). ONUSIDA, Liga colombiana de lucha contra el SIDA. p. 233. ISBN 978-958-33-1033-1.
  9. ^ JUSTICIA, MINISTERIO DE (1991-03-27). "DTO-292 27-MAR-1991 MINISTERIO DE JUSTICIA (Biblioteca del Congreso | Ley Chile)". www.bcn.cl (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  10. ^ "Extravíos Internacionalistas". Moléculas Malucas (in Spanish). 2020-09-07. Archived from the original on 2023-11-28. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  11. ^ "ACCIONGAY y Seremi de Salud junto a organizaciones ciudadanas participan en Campaña de prevención de VIH". Ministerio de Salud – Gobierno de Chile (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  12. ^ ""Corpo": cuna de la prevención del Sida en Chile y de los movimientos gays" (PDF). OpusGay. June 2002. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-07-10. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
  13. ^ "II Informe Anual de Derechos Humanos". www.movilh.cl (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 2013-08-28. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  14. ^ "NACE PRIMERA BIBLIO GAY". Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  15. ^ Guía Silber: directorio de instituciones de Chile (in Spanish). Silber. 2009. p. 521.
  16. ^ "INAUGURAN EL PRIMER CENTRO COMUNITARIO DE LA DIVERSIDAD | Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales de Chile". www.monumentos.gob.cl (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  17. ^ "DÍA DEL PATRIMONIO EN ACCIONGAY". www.acciongay.cl (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-06-23. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  18. ^ "Primer aniversario del Frente de la Diversidad Sexual". www.facebook.com. Archived from the original on 2023-06-21. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  19. ^ "SEFI, un sitio web para la visualización de la representación de la sexualidad" (PDF). repositorio.uchile.cl. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-05-13. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  20. ^ "Del Acuerdo de Unión Civil y su injerencia en la adopción de menores". revistas.ugm.cl. Archived from the original on 2018-04-24. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
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