Gaby wanted her films to show what LGBT+ people in Guatemala face every day. At Odasa, Gaby uses photography and film to increase respect for the LGBT+ community. This makes it difficult for them to be accepted, and many have a hard time getting an education or a job. Guatemala is a conservative, religious country where many people believe that LGBT+ people aren’t entitled to the same rights as “straight” people. Several actors from her films were also there, which gave us a good idea of the diversity of Odasa’s supporters.
We caught up with Gaby at a small office in a simple but attractive co-working space. Increasing respect for the LGBT+ community Odasa TV, the organization’s YouTube channel, is where her films and projects are posted online. With the support of Dutch Hivos donors, she has produced the LGBT-themed short films “I love you Marissa”, the story of a Guatemalan trans woman who falls in love, and “Whispers”, the story of a young gay man who is deaf. She is 35 years old and a human rights activist leading the Diversity Organization: Friends, Always Friends ( ODASA in Spanish). Gaby Castillo is the first Guatemalan trans woman to produce LGBT cinema. Her mission is to make the community visible and show how much creative talent it has. So Gaby Castillo decided to change that by shooting two short films with the LGBT+ community.
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“That is why we are here today, to keep Gaby Ramos’ face in the forefront, in hopes that this message will reach into the confines of where her murderer is hiding and someone will turn him in.LGBT+ people hardly play a role in Guatemala on TV or in other media. “We’re not here to tell you that it wasn’t important for Gabby Petito’s story to be told - we’re just saying we want equal, we want everyone to be equal and to be included,” Farmer said. The group also hopes to get in contact with Petito’s family to unite against domestic violence, and help get justice for both women, along with countless women of color who have been forgotten, said Brandy Farmer, who has been a domestic violence specialist for over 40 years. But in order to bring justice when it does happen, I think a Gaby alert would be great.” We want this to stop before anything happens. “Obviously, we don’t want this to happen. “We’re in preliminary talks with a representative here at the Utah State Capitol to see if we could implement a Gaby Alert,” Garcia said. Sergio Garcia, a friend of Gabriela’s who works with Rocio, said the group hopes to help prevent further instances of what happened in the cases of Petito and Sifuentes Castilla through the creation of “Gaby Alert,” a mechanism similar to an Amber Alert, but to help locate suspects of domestic violence. Speakers at the event urged the public to give the same attention to Gabriela’s death as they did to the death of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old woman who had traveled through Utah with her partner, Brian Laundrie, before she was reported missing and later found dead. “But we are fighting for her, for my sister,” Rocio said. Rocio said she and her family are going through a really hard time, and that in the middle of the night she often relives what she witnessed - all while Gabriela’s suspected killer is “living a happy life,” avoiding charges. Saturday’s event was organized by Sifuentes Castilla’s sister, Rocio Sifuentes, who witnessed Gabriela’s shooting, according to charging documents. Though charges were filed against Sifuentes Castilla’s former fiance, he’s believed to have fled to Mexico. Saturday afternoon, a group of around 30 friends, family and supporters gathered in a call-to-action in remembrance of the local Spanish radio host, who also went by the name Gaby Ramos. The song was created for women who are victims of violence, like Gabriela Sifuentes Castilla, who was shot and killed at her home on Oct. While cars whizzed by on the street, the lyrics of “Canción sin miedo,” or “Song without fear,” reverberated through the courtyard of the Taylorsville Municipal Justice Court.