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Festival Lésbico schedule is up

The hour-by-hour schedule of Mexico City’s Fourth Annual Festival Lésbico, which starts this Thursday at the Centro Cultural Contempo, is up at www.eventoslesbicos.com.mx, along with photos and (Spanish-language) bios of the performers. According to the website, the schedule is still subject to change. Macha Mexico’s (English-language) write-up of the invited performers, panelists, and presenters can [...]

4th Annual Festival Lésbico

UPDATE: Festival schedule posted. The 4th edition of the Festival Lésbico represents one of the few attempts during the year to gather and celebrate the lesbian community in Mexico City. It is organized by the non-profit organization Fundación Género Diverso, A. C. headed by Martha Cuevas, a veteran lesbian activist who has focused her work [...]

Wednesdays at "Pride": Two for One Martinis

I imagine that every city of the world has a local drink that is a little cheaper, and comes out tasting a little better than it might in other places, a pisco sour in Lima, a nice glass of red wine in Buenos Aires, a cuba libre in Havana. The flip side, of course, is [...]

Macha Mexico: Conversation with the Kumbia Queers

Here at Macha Mexico, we’ve been busy interviewing some amazing queers and feminists working on interesting projects in Mexico City. By translating and publishing this series of conversations, our hope is to introduce their voices and ideas to new audiences. It is with great pleasure, then, that we inaugurate this series with Mexican/Argentine tropical-punk band [...]

Avenida Q

Next September 11th, producers of Avenue Q in Mexico City will offer a special show for the Mexican LGBT community. The purpose is to thank the queer community for their support during the five months that the play has been on theatre. The Mexican version of the American musical conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff [...]

Tepoztlán: a Macha’s Day Out

Tepoztlán is a little town located 50 miles South of the Mexico City. It offers at least three things that machas love: delicious (vegetarian optional) food, spiritual insight in the shape of temazcales and massages, and a hill to climb in order to prove your resistance as a big macha. I’ve been in Tepoztlán many [...]

Queer Community and the City

Machas and gays in Mexico City have to deal with weird looks when it comes to public displays of affection. Statements such as “children shouldn’t see two men/women kissing in the subway” or “it is okay that the y love each other, as long as they do it in private” are examples of homophobia in [...]

Luzónica

Great machas in a great city. This is the best definition of Luzónica, a group of young queer women based in Oaxaca City, who seek to sensitize Oaxacan society about sexual diversity through arts and cultural expressions. Carina, Yiyi, Cois, Lety, Sofi—all of them between 19 and 30 years old—decided to create this group to [...]

Kumbia Queers show tonight in the Centro Historico

Everyon’s favorite Mexican/Argentine kumbia punk band, the Kumbia Queers, play tonight at 9pm in the Centro Cultural de España in the Centro Historico. This band, composed of members of the Mexican dyke punk band Las Ultrasonicas and Argentine dyke punk band the She Devils, are really worth catching if you are in Mexico City at [...]

2nd Annual Rock and Sexual Diversity Film Festival

Today is the opening night of the Second Annual Rock and Sexual Diversity Film Festival, which features film screenings, musical performances, a fashion show, and several dance parties. According to co-organizer Artemisa Téllez, the festival aims to create a space that is welcoming for the GLBT punks, emos, darketos (goths), and others who may not [...]