Cubans overwhelmgly approved gay marriage and adoptn a ernment-backed referendum on Sunday, a landmark vote half a century after a wave of state persecutn sent many homosexual people to forced labor mps and to exile.
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GAY COUPL RH TO WED BEFORE BRAZIL’S NEW PRINT TAK OFFICE
The g print, Jair Bolsonaro, has promised to end same-sex marriage, leadg to a surge the number of gay weddgs before his guratn. * mariage gay bresil *
Bolsonaro — a far-right polician who once clared “I’m homophobic, wh pri” — changed their lculatns.
Bolsonaro, for years a mor figure Congrs bt known for his outbursts agast women, gay people and black people, managed to turn Brazil’s rampant polil rptn and vlent crime to an electn opportuny, billg himself as the ndidate who would rtore law and also won over many voters wh his culturally nservative agenda. While mpaigng, he acced prev left-leang ernments of distributg “gay ks” schools, a reference to sexual tn materials that he said “perverted” many the L.
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“People now have this open homophobic disurse that they were too embarrassed to say before, ” said Ms. Bolsonaro and kill leftists, femists and gay Moriyama for The New York TimMs.
Bolsonaro, then a ndidate, would kill gay Zannata, a passnate Palmeiras fan, had always gone to their gam, she said. ”As gay upl flocked to public notari, support flood on social media and at hastily arranged weddgs. ” Moriyama for The New York TimCake-makers, weddg planners, photographers and disc jockeys have e forward, offerg their servic for ee, while gay rights activists have anized a seri of group a recent ceremony, anized by volunteers at a nverted factory São Plo, four upl that had bbled together their weddgs ls than three weeks gathered at the altar.
”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 13 of the New York edn wh the headle: Gay Weddgs Brazil Surge After Electn.