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• ‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN
• BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY

‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN

By The Numbers79% Thk homosexualy should be accepted by society as a whole80% of Brazilians thk homosexualy should be accepted by society79% of Brazilians thk society accept homosexualy74% of Brazilians thk homosexualy should be accepted by societyHistoryHomosexual activy Brazil? AmbiguoAlthough the Brazilian nstutn of 1988 prohibs any form of discrimatn, was not until 2019 that homosexuals and trans people were fively regnized as one of the adoptn Brazil? BannedThe same judge changed his cisn, keepg the “treatment” bannedIn September 2017, a feral judge Brasília approved the e of nversn therapy by a psychologist to “cure” people of homosexualy, overlg the 1999 cisn.

Some regns the untry also have expand laws that protect LGBTQ+ people, such as Juiz Fora cy and São Plo state, which troduced anti-homophobia laws 2000 and 2001. The natnal Human Rights Ombudsperson’s Office received about 1, 100 plats of vlence, discrimatn, and other crim agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) persons between January and October 2021.

Between January and June 2020, the natnal Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office received 1, 134 plats of vlence, discrimatn, and other ab agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) persons. Vlent aths of LGBT people Brazil have h an all-time high followg a sudn spike last year, new rearch least 445 LGBT Brazilians died as victims of homophobia 2017 – a 30% crease om 2016, acrdg to LGBT watchdog group Gpo Gay victims – 387 murrs and 58 suicis – clu Dandara dos Santos, a transexual woman who was beaten to ath the north-eastern Brazil cy Fortaleza March. A vio of her beg beaten and kicked circulated on social media wh her torturers llg her homophobic is one of the world’s most vlent untri, wh a rerd 62, 000 homicis 2016, but thors of the rearch say that the aths were directly related to Mott, an anthropologist and print of Gpo Gay Bahia, said the risg vlence owed much to the promence of ultranservative policians, many of whom are lked to the untry’s powerful evangelil uc ngrs.

BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY

“It’s a disurse that stroys solidary and equat LGBT people to animals, ” he programs lked to evangelil church often pare homosexualy to the vil, she saidHomophobic speech is not a feral crime Brazil, while siar state and municipal laws are rarely effective or enforced. “In the last Brazil looked to produce polici that uld protect vulnerable groups like gay and trans people but they mostly failed, due to lack of vtment or change visn of policy, ” said Jurema Werneck, executive director at Amnty Internatnal vlence might seem at odds wh Brazil’s image as an clive natn that is home to the world’s largt gay para and where gay marriage is the untry has a strong nservative streak too: one of the leadg ndidat this year’s printial electn is former army pta Jair Bolsonaro who has said that gay children n be “beaten straight” March last year, feral ngrsman Victór Galli said on rad that Mickey Moe was a homosexual filtrator and Disney was an apologist for “gayns” sendg sublimal msag to September, a Brazilian judge approved gay “nversn therapy”, a week after an exhibn of gay art was ncelled.

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. An act of “barbaric” vlence where a 22-year-old gay man was gang-raped and tortured has prompted fierce reactn Brazil and is evince of a growg ti of hate crime the untry, acrdg to human rights man, who has not been named, was attacked last week Florianópolis by three armed men who ed sharp objects durg the asslt and forced him to rve homophobic slurs to his legs, said attackers left him the street where he was found and taken to hospal.

“This is a ighteng crime but ’s very mon Brazil, and vlence – not only agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people but also women, black people and immigrants – is worseng, ” said Liro Ávila, print of the Associatn Defence of Human Rights, an anisatn that helps victims of vlence Florianópolis.