‘Epimic of vlence’: Brazil shocked by ‘barbaric’ gang-rape of gay man | Brazil | The Guardian

Contents:

• ‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN
• WAS AN ATLANTA MAN ASSLTED AND RAPED BY GAY GANG THE 'SWEET BLOODS'?
• ‘BARBARIC’ VLENCE AS GAY MAN BTALLY GANG-RAPED BY 3 MEN IN BRAZIL
• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST

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

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. She said opn had been divid, wh some people shocked by the se while others jtified , sayg the man was gay.

WAS AN ATLANTA MAN ASSLTED AND RAPED BY GAY GANG THE 'SWEET BLOODS'?

”In 2020, 237 LGBT people died suatns of vlence; there were 224 murrs and 13 suicis, acrdg to Gpo Gay da Bahia, the olst LGBT rights anisatn Lat Ameri.

Print Jair Bolsonaro has a long history of LGBT-phobic and misogynistic ments, cludg sayg that he is a “proud homophobe”. ”There have been other homophobic attacks the untry where objects have been ed on the victim. Prof Luiz Mott, a gay rights activist and founr of Gpo Gay da Bahia, ced the se of 17-year-old Wner Oliveira who died after attackers phed a prsed air hose om a r wash si him.

“A ser problem relatn to homophobic and transphobic crim is impuny, ” he said. “The police – for reasons of homophobia or stctural pacy – don’t vtigate every murr.

‘BARBARIC’ VLENCE AS GAY MAN BTALLY GANG-RAPED BY 3 MEN IN BRAZIL

KEY POINTSA 22-year-old gay man  Brazil was attacked by three armed men last weekThe victim is now reverg, and police said they are vtigatg the cintActivists said the asslt was evince of a growg ti of hate crime the untryA 22-year-old gay man Brazil’s southern Santa Catara state was gang-raped and tortured last week what human rights activists scribed as a "btal" and "barbaric" act of vlence amid a growg ti of hate crime the victim, who was not named, was asslted the state's pal cy of Florianópolis by three men armed wh sharp objects who forced him to rve homophobic slurs to his legs, The Guardian reported, cg the activists. "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 Associatn Defence of Human Rights print Liro Ávila. Hate speech ends up propagatg vlence, " she least 237 LGBT people died suatns of vlence 2020, acrdg to Gpo Gay da Bahia, the olst LGBT rights anizatn Lat Ameri.

"We have a print who pound this vlence, ” said Ávila, referrg to Print Jair Bolsonaro, a self-scribed "proud homophobe. The prison director showed him an isolatn cell, where ne former gang members—om each of the untry’s three ma anized crime groups, MS-13, and two factns of Barr 18—had been moved after g out as gay. “Bee the gangs, if there’s even the spicn that you’re gay, you pay for wh your life.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

” In this particular prison, San Francis Gotera, the east of the Central Amerin untry, gang culture was not the only source of vilent homophobia.

TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST

The state had effectively ced ntrol of daily life si Gotera to church lears, who preach that homosexualy is a s as grave as vlence. 8—follows Geovany, a gay man who worked as a hman for Barr 18 and left the gang 2016.

Livg the isolatn cell wh his partner and other gay mat, he grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past. Homosexualy remas taboo and vlence and discrimatn agast LGBTQ people is rife. “How is possible for a untry to have s moral pass so broken that homosexualy and murr n feel the same?

“But the tth is that they are already nmned: they’ve left the gang; they’ve lived wh former members of other gangs; and they’ve lived openly as gay people, ” she says. The homosexual is the same, ” says a pastor one terview laid over a scene of him preachg to rapturo crowds the prison urtyard. ) Martez says the film is not an attempt to reem the subjects “jt bee they’re gay, jt bee they n show love or tenrns.