Contents:
- BRAZIL MT NOT BEE A 'GAY TOURISM PARADISE', SAYS BOLSONARO
- JAIR BOLSONARO: PRO-TORTURE, ANTI-GAY AND BRAZIL’S FUTURE PRINT?
BRAZIL MT NOT BEE A 'GAY TOURISM PARADISE', SAYS BOLSONARO
He publicly clared (translated om Portugue) “I’m not gog to fight or discrimate, but if I spot two men kissg the street, I’ll beat them up, ” and that “90 per cent of adopted boys are gog to be gay and will be sex workers for the uple. ” He said a TV terview on Participação Popular “[If] the kid begs to look gay-ish, you jt beat him up really bad and this will fix him. R Janeiro is an ternatnal hub for gay tourism and Bolsonaro’s votg home base.
While Recife is beg one of the major ci the northeast for domtic gay tourism, is one of the ci wh the largt number of anti-Bolsonaro vot. His ultra-far-right, homophobic, racist and mysogynistic views have ma the realy much worse.
JAIR BOLSONARO: PRO-TORTURE, ANTI-GAY AND BRAZIL’S FUTURE PRINT?
{mosads}The former ary officer and right-wg polician ma cendiary ments about race and sexual orientatn durg his mpaign, sayg 2011 that he would be “pable of lovg a homosexual son. Dozens of gay upl shed to get married the untry last month before Bolsonaro took office out of fear that he would try to lim same-sex marriage. “We will une people, value the fay, rpect religns and our Juo-Christian tradn, bat genr iology and rcue our valu, ” Bolsonaro said at his New Year’s Day admistratn’s actns are raisg ncerns among liberals, who are bracg for polici embraced by a print who once said he would prefer a ad son to a gay son.
Last month, Jean Wyllys, Brazil’s only openly gay ngrsman, gave up his seat and fled the untry amid ath threats and hateful msag. In recent years, killgs of LGBT Brazilians have soared, a trend activists say is gettg worse as homophobic rhetoric fds an official crim Sao Plo, Brazil’s largt cy, peaked the months leadg up to October’s printial electn, as Bolsonaro, once a ge polician, entered the mastream.