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Contents:
- AN TERVIEW WH BRAZIL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SENATOR, FABIANO CONTARATO
- BRAZIL'S SOLE OPENLY GAY NGRSMAN LEAV UNTRY AFTER ATH THREATS
- BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE MAK HISTORY — AND SPARKS CRICISM
- 'LULA IS GOD' COMMENT BY BRAZILIAN GAY ACTIVIST SENATOR SPARKS REACTN FROM EVANGELILS
- GAY CIVIL UNNS PASSED BY BRAZILIAN SENATE
- BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY
- FIRST OPENLY GAY BRAZILIAN 2022 PRINTIAL CANDIDATE RUNNG
AN TERVIEW WH BRAZIL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SENATOR, FABIANO CONTARATO
In 2018, Fabiano Contarato beme the first openly gay man to be elected to the Brazilian Senate. The 52-year-old senator, who reprents the state of Espíro Santo, was elected the midst of a shift Brazil’s polil climate toward extremist and fundamentalist views; the print elected 2018, Jair Bolsonaro, has nsistently ma racist and homophobic remarks and has been lled “Tmp of the Tropics.
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BRAZIL'S SOLE OPENLY GAY NGRSMAN LEAV UNTRY AFTER ATH THREATS
In 2018, the movement celebrated 40 years of activism, but we have dozens of bills stuck the closets of the legislative ho — like a bill crimalizg homophobia, a bill legalizg marriage equaly, and bills that addrs health-related issu, such as endg the rtrictn on blood donatn.
BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE MAK HISTORY — AND SPARKS CRICISM
Brazil’s first and only openly gay ngrsman has announced that he is leavg his job – and the untry – after receivg ath a newspaper terview on Thursday, Jean Wyllys said he was currently outsi of Brazil and had no plans to return after a growg number of threats over the past, who was re-elected October and had been set to beg a third term Febary, was a close iend of Marielle Fran, the gay R uncilwoman who was shot and killed along wh her driver parture is likely to add to fears among Brazil’s LGBT muny that homophobia is set to rise even further unr the ernment of print Jair Bolsonaro, who has won notoriety for his overt the terview, Wyllys said his cisn to leave wasn’t bee of Bolsonaro’s rise, but rather the climate of heated rhetoric and tensifyg vlence toward members of the LGBT muny the wake of last year’s heated electn mpaign. ”Wyllys first found natnal fame when he won Brazil’s versn of Big Brother, and went on to bee one of the untry’s most high-profile advot for gay rights – a role which led to equent attacks om the relig right.
'LULA IS GOD' COMMENT BY BRAZILIAN GAY ACTIVIST SENATOR SPARKS REACTN FROM EVANGELILS
’ And he’s right: I don’t want to sacrifice myself, ” Wyllys Congrs, Wyllys was equently at odds wh Bolsonaro, a ngrsman for 28 years wh a long history of homophobic, racist and sexist their most notor public clash, Wyllys sp towards Bolsonaro on the floor of the lower Hoe of Deputi after Bolsonaro dited his vote to impeach then-print Dilma Roseff to a dictatorship-era a tweet on Thursday, Wyllys said: “Prervg a threatened life is also a strategy to fight for better days. Dpe Brazil’s image as an clive natn that is home to the world’s largt gay para, homophobia is rampant, and often vlent.
GAY CIVIL UNNS PASSED BY BRAZILIAN SENATE
In 2017, at least 445 LGBT Brazilians died as victims of homophobia – a 30% crease om 2016.
Brazilian ernor Eduardo Lee was met wh a mixed receptn after g out as gay amid his 2022 printial n.
BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY
While the admissn mak him the untry’s first-ever openly gay printial ndidate, crics blasted Lee’s prev support of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s homophobic, far-right, a ndidate reprentg the centrist Brazilian Social Democratic party (PSDB) next year’s electns, opened up about his sexual orientatn for the first time a Thursday terview wh TV Globo, the untry’s largt televisn work.
“But durg this moment of low tegry Brazil, I have nothg to hi, I am gay. At 36, he is the natn’s youngt ernor to be currently servg office, and his g out mak him the first openly gay man to be ernor of a Brazilian his terview, Lee clarified that se himself as “a ernor who is gay, not a gay ernor. ”Many proment figur Brazil appld Lee for takg a stand agast homophobia and makg history the procs.
FIRST OPENLY GAY BRAZILIAN 2022 PRINTIAL CANDIDATE RUNNG
Fabiano Contarato, who beme the first openly gay reprentative the Brazilian Senate 2018, thanked the ernor for his “bravery” a Thursday tweet.
LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space. As the first openly-gay non-cumbent Republin elected to Congrs, Santos supports LGBTQ rights.