Homophobic attacks crease seemgly gay-iendly Brazil - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• GPO GAY DA BAHIA
• BRAZIL IS CONONTG AN EPIMIC OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE
• GAY SALVADOR
• CATEGORY:GPO GAY DA BAHIA
• VIO ENCYCLOPEDIAFLASHBACKCATEGORIGPO GAY DA BAHIA
• HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS CREASE SEEMGLY GAY-IENDLY BRAZIL
• BT OF 5 SALVADOR GAY SNAS I VISED... - SNA FOX

GPO GAY DA BAHIA

Gpo Gay da Bahia was found 1980 and is the olst LGBT human rights movement Brazil. In s archive, Gpo Gay da Bahia has the largt documentatn the world on assassatns of LGBTs: between 1980 and 1998, over 1, 600 gays, lbians and transgenrs were killed Brazil as a rult of homophobia – an average of one every 4 days.

Even though homosexualy has been legal Brazil sce 1830 and (LGBT) human rights are protected by the Brazila nstutn, there are still ser issu regarg vlatns and abe mted by both the civil and ary police. In an attempt to change this Gpo Gay da Bahia offered a trag program on LGBT rights and sexual diversy for 100 ary police officers. A few days earlier, the astal state of Bahia, two beloved teachers, Edivaldo Silva Oliveira and Jeovan Banira, were killed as well, their charred remas found the tnk of a burng last month, was Wellgton Júl Castro Mendonça, a shy, 24-year-old retail clerk, who was bludgeoned and stoned to ath near a highway a cy northwt of a natn seemgly ured to crime, the btal killgs stood out: The victims were not robbed, the police have yet to intify any spects, and all of the ad were eher gay or Amerins have fiercely bated how to rpond to the massacre last month at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., Brazilians have been nontg their own epimic of anti-gay vlence — one that, by some unts, has earned Brazil the ignom rankg of the world’s adlit place for lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr 1, 600 people have died hate-motivated attacks the past four and half years, acrdg to Gpo Gay da Bahia, which tracks the aths through news articl.

By s tally, a gay or transgenr person is killed almost every day this natn of 200 ln. “And the numbers reprent only the tip of the iceberg of vlence and bloodshed, ” said Eduardo Michels, the group’s data manager, addg that the Brazilian police often om anti-gay anim when pilg homici statistics n be hard to square wh Brazil’s storied image as a tolerant, open society — a natn that seemgly nurtur eewheelg exprsns of sexualy durg Carnival and holds the world’s biggt gay pri para the cy of São R Janeiro, host to the g Summer Olympics, fear of vlent crime is on many people’s mds.

BRAZIL IS CONONTG AN EPIMIC OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE

5 openg ceremony for the Gam, have shot ad more than 100 people this year, most of them young black men livg poor advot say the nstant homophobic vlence also threatens to upend an ialized natnal ethos that promis equaly and rpect for all Brazilians. In 2003, Brazil beme the first untry Lat Ameri to regnize same-sex unns for immigratn purpos, and was among the earlit to allow gay upl to adopt 2013, the Brazilian judiciary effectively legalized same-sex experts suggt that liberal ernment polici may have gotten too far ahead of tradnal social mor. The anti-gay vlence, they ntend, n be traced to Brazil’s culture of machismo and a brand of evangelil Christiany, exported om the Uned Stat, that is outspoken s opposn to homosexualy.

Evangelil voters have helped send more than 60 lawmakers to the 513-member lower hoe of Congrs, doublg their numbers sce 2010 and makg them one of the most discipled blocs an unly and divid Wyllys, Brazil’s only openly gay member of Congrs, said evangelil lawmakers, the re of a aln known as the “B. Uc” — short for Bullets, Beef and Bible — have stymied legislatn that would punish anti-gay discrimatn and crease penalti for hate crim.

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CATEGORY:GPO GAY DA BAHIA

)Durg a televised printial bate 2014, one of the ndidat, Levy Filix, said that homosexuals were unf to be parents and that “excretory systems aren’t for reproductn. ” Jair Bolsonaro, a ngrsman well known for his nservative views, has remend rporal punishment as a tool for turng gays to Corral, a polil scientist at Amherst College who studi gay rights movements Lat Ameri, said much of the homophobia was a reactn to achievements like same-sex marriage. ”Mar Feliciano, a proment member of the evangelil bloc Congrs, rejects suggtns that anti-gay sentiment fosters vlence.

In an terview, he exprsed regret for an earlier remark scribg AIDS as “a gay ncer, ” but fend efforts to fight gay rights legislatn, sistg, for example, that same-sex upl are unf to be parents.

Victims of anti-gay and transgenr vlence say they often experience a h round of huiatn om the law enforcement thori, some of whom are openly hostile to requts that they rerd a crime as Qutanilha, 28, an artist and photographer om São Plo, said he had been beaten wh a stick by four assailants durg Carnival this year. The attackers, who set upon him the heart of downtown, shouted anti-gay ephets as they bloodied his face, he said, but the police refed to nsir the attack an act of several hours, he said, officers at a police statn sisted that he had been the victim of a simple robbery bee he lost his cellphone and wallet durg the chaos.

VIO ENCYCLOPEDIAFLASHBACKCATEGORIGPO GAY DA BAHIA

“In the end, they ma me doubt whether a homophobic attack really happened, ” he said.

”Anton Kvalo, 34, a web signer, created, a se where Brazilians n log stanc of anti-gay vlence.

HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS CREASE SEEMGLY GAY-IENDLY BRAZIL

Kvalo when spects homophobic vlence are arrted, advot say, they are often treated leniently. Last month, a who had long tnted him for beg gay chased him down the street wh a kchen knife, stabbg him the cht and arms as relativ watched Reis survived, and the , an evangelil Christian, was arrted.

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 4 of the New York edn wh the headle: Brazil Cononts an Epimic of Anti-Gay Vlence.

Although ’s still unknown to many travelers, Salvador is nsired Brazil’s most gay-iendly cy. It don’t have the glter of R Janeiro or the size of São Plo, but for years this northern cy has burnished a reputatn for havg an easygog attu about gay people.

BT OF 5 SALVADOR GAY SNAS I VISED... - SNA FOX

Salvador is home to the untry’s olst gay rights and human rights anizatn Brazil, the Gpo Gay da Bahia. Salvador's Gay Pri Para, one of the largt Brazil wh around 800, 000 participants, tak place September.