As a gay man growg up Brazil, Afif Sarhan was banned om donatg blood for most of his life.
Contents:
- BRAZIL MT NOT BEE A 'GAY TOURISM PARADISE', SAYS BOLSONARO
- WH BRAZIL'S BOLSONARO ATTACKG THE SUPREME COURT, ARE GAY RIGHTS AT RISK?
- JAIR BOLSONARO: PRO-TORTURE, ANTI-GAY AND BRAZIL’S FUTURE PRINT?
BRAZIL MT NOT BEE A 'GAY TOURISM PARADISE', SAYS BOLSONARO
A s a gay man growg up Brazil, Afif Sarhan was banned om donatg blood for most of his life. * bolsonaro lgbt *
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. {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. Sce then, the Mistry of Women, Fay and Human Rights has chosen to remove the legal protectn stat of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) people.
WH BRAZIL'S BOLSONARO ATTACKG THE SUPREME COURT, ARE GAY RIGHTS AT RISK?
“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.
JAIR BOLSONARO: PRO-TORTURE, ANTI-GAY AND BRAZIL’S FUTURE PRINT?
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. Homophobic hate crim particular rose 75 percent durg those months.
When a man behd them started shoutg homophobic slurs, sayg they should die, his hband nonted the man, he man stabbed Pl wh a Swiss army knife, he said. MEXICO CITY (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - When he realized Jair Bolsonaro was likely to be elected print of Brazil last year, polician David Miranda’s first ncern was for his fay, rather than his an openly gay man adoptg two children, Miranda worried that Bolsonaro uld revoke many of Brazil’s LGBT+ rights, cludg gay three months later, the 33-year-old was propelled to the public spotlight when Jean Wyllys - one of Brazil’s only openly gay ngrsmen - fled the untry sayg vlence had creased the wake of Bolsonaro’s w.
Miranda took Wyllys’s seat, jog a small but creasgly termed group of LGBT+ policians prepared to take on the right-wg print, a former army pta who has scribed himself as a “proud” homophobe. ”Homophobia is mon Brazil, a eply relig untry where both the Catholic Church and the creasgly popular evangelil Christian movement are equently cril of gay like many Lat Amerin untri, Brazil is also home to a growg populatn of young, ted urban liberals eager to stand up for gay and transgenr October general electn saw several seats go to LGBT+ ndidat, cludg Marcelo Calero, only the third openly gay man ever elected to Brazil’s lower hoe of the state of Espiro Santo elected Fabiano Contarato to the natnal assembly, makg him the untry’s first ever openly gay senator, and several LGBT+ ndidat won office at state level.