A s a gay man growg up Brazil, Afif Sarhan was banned om donatg blood for most of his life.
Contents:
- BOLSONARO: BRAZIL MT NOT BEE 'GAY TOURISM PARADISE'
- BRAZIL MT NOT BEE A 'GAY TOURISM PARADISE', SAYS BOLSONARO
- WH BRAZIL'S BOLSONARO ATTACKG THE SUPREME COURT, ARE GAY RIGHTS AT RISK?
- BOLSONARO CRICIZ SUPREME COURT OVER GAY RIGHTS
- BOLSONARO CRAT QUE LE BRéSIL NE VIENNE « UN PARADIS DU TOURISME GAY »
- BRAZILIAN POTENTIAL PRINTIAL NDIDATE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
- ‘THE ANTHIS OF BOLSONARO’: A GAY COUPLE ROILS BRAZIL’S FAR RIGHT
- GAY COUPL RH TO WED BEFORE BRAZIL’S NEW PRINT TAK OFFICE
- JAIR BOLSONARO: PRO-TORTURE, ANTI-GAY AND BRAZIL’S FUTURE PRINT?
- BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY
BOLSONARO: BRAZIL MT NOT BEE 'GAY TOURISM PARADISE'
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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.
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BRAZIL MT NOT BEE A 'GAY TOURISM PARADISE', SAYS BOLSONARO
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian Print Jair Bolsonaro on Friday acced the untry's Supreme Court of "legislatg" om the bench after a majory of s jtic voted to make homophobia a crime like racism. Bolsonaro, who has the past acknowledged that he is a homophobe, was speakg at a natnal nventn of the evangelil Assembli of God Madureira church. Conservative church groups have been leadg ristance to LGBT rights measur and ntributed to his victory the last printial electn. Earlier this month, a majory of the top urt's jtic led that homophobia should be amed wh the racism law until ngrs approv specific legislatn. They argued the lg was to addrs an omissn that had left the LGBT muny legally unprotected. The fal cisn is due on June 5 after the remag judg who have not yet voted make their cisns, but the rult will not be modified. In 2018, 420 LGBT people were killed across Brazil, acrdg to the nonprof Gpo Gay da Bahia. Durg his 27 years Congrs and then mpaigng for print, Bolsonaro, a former army pta, has repeatedly ma offensive ments about gays, blacks, other mory groups and women. He once said an terview he would rather have a ad son than a gay son. * bolsonaro gay *
Image source, EPAImage ptn, Print Bolsonaro has been cricised the past for his public statements on homosexualyBrazilian Print Jair Bolsonaro has been cricised for sistg the untry shouldn't bee a "gay tourism paradise". "Brazil n't be a untry of the gay world, of gay tourism. We have fai, " he Bolsonaro has already drawn ire for beg a self-scribed "homophobic" reportedly ma his latt ments at a breakfast meetg wh reporters the untry's pal Brasí immediate backlash has been prompted om Brazil's LGBT muny.
"He is stag the image of our untry every imagable way, " Mr Miranda Brazilian print, a former army pta, is a eply divisive figure whose racist, homophobic and misogynistic remarks have angered prev terviews he has said he would rather have a ad son than a homosexual son. Brazil’s far-right print, the self-clared homophobe Jair Bolsonaro, has been acced of cg hatred towards LGBT people after clarg the South Amerin untry should not bee a “gay tourism paradise”. “But we n’t let this place bee known as a gay tourism paradise.
Brazil n’t be a untry of the gay world, of gay tourism. “All this monstrat is … somethg that he has ma nsistently clear over nearly 30 years of public life: that he is a homophobe, ” Qualha a vio posted on Twter, Jean Wyllys, another proment LGBT mpaigner, said the ments ced hatred agast mori.
WH BRAZIL'S BOLSONARO ATTACKG THE SUPREME COURT, ARE GAY RIGHTS AT RISK?
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Bolsonaro’s electn last October stunned members of Brazil’s LGBT muny, who fear his electn has legimised a new wave of homophobia and homophobic vlence.
Bolsonaro, a former army pta, has long been notor for his homophobic ments, once clarg: “Y, I’m homophobic – and very proud of .
BOLSONARO CRICIZ SUPREME COURT OVER GAY RIGHTS
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”Durg a 2013 terview wh the Brish actor Stephen Fry, Bolsonaro claimed “homosexual fundamentalists” were brawashg heterosexual children to “bee gays and lbians to satisfy them sexually the future” told Fry “Brazilian society don’t like homosexuals.
BOLSONARO CRAT QUE LE BRéSIL NE VIENNE « UN PARADIS DU TOURISME GAY »
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Bolsonaro’s remarks are the latt blow to longstandg Brazilian attempts to build an ternatnal reputatn as a tolerant and clive society, as well as to efforts to promote Brazil as a welg statn for gay tourists. RIO DE JANEIRO/ MEXICO CITY, July 20 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - A s a gay man growg up Brazil, Afif Sarhan was banned om donatg blood for most of his life.
BRAZILIAN POTENTIAL PRINTIAL NDIDATE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
”That all changed May when Brazil’s top urt overturned the ban on gay men givg blood - the latt more than half a dozen lgs has ma favour of LGBT+ years, the urts have been the ma driver of LGBT+ gas Brazil, wh ltle actn om Congrs a eply relig untry where both the Catholic Church and the popular evangelil Christian movement equently cricise gay Print Jair Bolsonaro, a former army pta well-known for makg homophobic remarks and praisg the untry’s 1964-1985 dictatorship, beg creasgly cril of the judiciary, some fear that LGBT+ progrs uld now be at nservative lear said last month that the Supreme Court was “mtg ab” and was time to put “everythg s rightful place” after thorised vtigatns to claims Bolsonaro ma police appotments for personal urt, monly known as the STF, is also vtigatg ralli endorsed by Bolsonaro that lled for ary terventn polics and the closure of the Supreme Court and Congrs, triggerg fears for Brazil’s young one prott last month, supporters of Bolsonaro set off fireworks the directn of the Supreme Court buildg. “Bolsonaro’s attack agast the STF is a direct and ontal asslt agast one of the pillars of mocracy, ” said David Miranda, an openly gay ngrsman wh the leftist opposn Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL). VICTORIESLGBT+ issu rema divisive Brazil, which has the world’s largt Catholic muny and a growg evangelil populatn among the urban poor, shiftg polics to the untry is also one of the world’s most dangero for gay and trans people, wh 297 LGBT+ murrs last year, acrdg to the watchdog group Gpo Gay da to wispread nservatism Brazilian polics and society, activists have largely turned to the urts stead of Congrs to secure LGBT+ rights.
”The strategy has paid year, the Supreme Court allowed streamg platform Netflix to ntue showg a film pictg J as gay, spe a natnal outcry, and also stck down lol laws barrg teachg on genr and sexual orientatn also voted to crimalise homophobia and transphobia last year, and 2018 led that the ernment uld not require trans people to have surgery orr to legally change their Congrs dragged s feet on passg a gay marriage bill, the judiciary took the lead on legalisg 2013.
‘THE ANTHIS OF BOLSONARO’: A GAY COUPLE ROILS BRAZIL’S FAR RIGHT
Popular opn on LGBT+ rights remas eply divid Brazil, unlike neighbourg Argenta, where gay marriage passed through Congrs 2010 and provoked a heated public discsn.
“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.
GAY COUPL RH TO WED BEFORE BRAZIL’S NEW PRINT TAK OFFICE
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. RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil's Print Jair Bolsonaro lashed out at journalists on Friday, sayg one had a homosexual's “face” a remark that was promptly mocked by the print's crics.
Then he told one reporter, “Your face looks an awful lot like a homosexual's, but that's no reason to acce you of beg a homosexual. Meanwhile some policians, journalists and other Brazilians turned to social media, postg selfi wh the ptn “awfully homosexual face”.
Jean Wyllys, an openly gay former lawmaker who often clashed Bolsonaro when the two served Congrs, was an early participant of the onle movement. “'An awfully homosexual face.
JAIR BOLSONARO: PRO-TORTURE, ANTI-GAY AND BRAZIL’S FUTURE PRINT?
Bolsonaro has a history of makg rogatory remarks about women, gay people and racial mori, cludg on last year’s mpaign trail. One day after announcg he had tted posive for ronavis Jair Bolsonaro has e unr fire for allegedly g homophobic language to mock the e of face Folha São Plo, a leadg broadsheet, claimed Brazil’s far-right lear had baed printial staff who were g protective masks, claimg such equipment was “isa viado” (a homophobic slur that roughly translat as “for fairi”).
BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY
Bolsonaro is a longstandg enemy of Brazil’s LGBTQ+ muny and durg three s polics has ma no secret of his homophobia. “I have [parliamentary] immuny to say: y, I’m homophobic – and very proud of , ” he said one filmed terview durg his seven-term stt as a a 2013 terview wh Stephen Fry – which the Brish actor later lled “one of the most chillg nontatns I’ve ever had wh a human beg” – Bolsonaro alleged “homosexual fundamentalists” were brawashg heterosexual children so they uld “satisfy them sexually the future” Bolsonaro downplayed Covid-19 before, and after, he ntracted the vis – vioReports of Bolsonaro’s latt homophobic remark drew immediate Amparo, a law profsor and lumnist, changed his Twter profile to “fairy” and tweeted: “Print, one day a fairy, like me and many others, will s the printial chair, and be an fely better print than you were.
”Thiago Theodoro, a journalist who prents a podst lled E aí, gay? (Hey, gay! Freas, who has shied away om Bolsonaro's favore hot-button issu such as gun rights and gay marriage, joed the Republins last year ahead of his n for ernor stead of the former print's more right-wg Liberal Bolsonaro mired crimal vtigatns and barred by the urts om nng for office due to his attacks on the electoral system, Brazil's nservative kgmakers are placg their bets on Freas.