Ma Brazil: Primetime Soap "A Favora" Gets My Gay Vote

Globo works may have never aired a gay kiss one of s soaps, but serv some cred for the work s current primetime soap A Favora is dog terms of tg the Brazilian populatn about homosexualy. In this past Saturday's episo, one of the characters fend a lbian chef who had jt been outed and had her rtrant boytted by the people of the small fict town of Triunfo. I took the time to translate the scene. "Is Stela (the lbian character) a crimal? Don't she pay her tax jt like the rt of ? She actually do more than most of . She me to this town, opened a rtrant, and hired several people, generatg revenue. .. if no one has anythg agast her personally, why choose to boytt her rtrant?" When a relig town lady answers that Stela is a pervert and sets a bad example for the muny, the reply is: "Why? Bee she lik women? Is that some sort of flaw? A crime? Cheatg on your hband, cheatg on your wife, stealg, sellg alhol to mors, and gossipg, you are all okay wh that; but love, and fallg love wh someone of your same sex, that is somethg you nnot pe wh." It may not have the same impact when translated, but was the most hont and important pro-gay speech I have seen a natnal soap. I hope will ronate wh viewers across the untry. Related: A Hot Lbian Comg Out