LGBT Rights Brazil: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
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MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
This is bee official and non-ernmental data on physil and digal vlence targetg gay, lbian, bisexual, queer and trans people is patchy and uneven. To date, most available data volvg vlence agast LGBTQ people is produced by non-ernment advocy and rearch groups such as Transgenr Europe, Gpo Gay da Bahia, Instuto Brasileiro Trans Edução and others. A proment example of this occurred after a vio of soccer fans sgg homophobic chants llg on Bolsonaro to kill LGBTQ people was spread on Facebook and WhatsApp.
Codg Rights recently published a report on onle visibily and vlence agast the gay and lbian muny and supports anti-digal surveillance workshops, as well as practil guidance on how to safely share photos and vios onle. After the electn of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s send openly gay ngrs member Jean Wyllys left their posn and fled the untry due to the creased level of vlence agast LGBTQ+ people and the number of ath threats received. Carlos Renan dos Santos Evaldt, a banker and print of a gay sports club Porto Alegre, was spurred to offer jujsu class not jt to ensure personal safety, but “rights achieved through hard work and at the st of many liv and years.
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.