<p>Gay characters feature latt nightly telenovela, and activists urge show to have first on-screen embrace</p>
Contents:
- A KISS IS JT A KISS? NOT IF IT'S A GAY KISS (ON BRAZILIAN TV)
- BRAZIL’S GAY KISS
- THE PLAY’S THE THG NEW BOOK ‘GAYS ON BROADWAY
- BRAZILIAN TV GETS S FIRST GAY KISS OM BNO GAGLIASSO
- BIG BROTHER BRAZIL: LUS KOKA SELF-EVICTS AFTER HISTORIC 1ST GAY KISS ON THE SHOW
- MARVEL ARTIST LLS FOR LGBTQ SOLIDARY BRAZIL AFTER GAY KISS ROW
- BRAZIL AIRS FIRST PRIMETIME GAY MALE KISS
A KISS IS JT A KISS? NOT IF IT'S A GAY KISS (ON BRAZILIAN TV)
Brazilians are batg whether is appropriate for statns to broadst a gay uple kiss on primetime TV. * brazilian gay kiss *
Brazilians are batg whether is appropriate for statns to broadst a gay uple kiss on primetime TV. It all began wh the lnch of a new telenovela entled Insensato Coração (Foolish Heart) back January, which clus six gay characters -- a rerd number Brazil's soap-opera world. Acrdg to Rirdo Feltr, an edor of entertament at Folha Sao Plo newspaper, wrers at Globo have been "verbally warned" not to create plots wh gay ntent.
It's at least the fifth time that Globo has bowed down to nservative prsur and back-paddled on cisns to air homosexual ntent.
Its owner, Edir Macedo, belongs to the Neo-Pentestal Universal Church of the Kgdom of God, and is one of Brazil's biggt anti-gay activists.
BRAZIL’S GAY KISS
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Fearg the ntroversy uld st them more viewers, SBT opted to follow Globo's and Rerd's cisn to avoid homosexual them. But aren't homosexuals part of that wir dience?
That's what Toni Reis, the print of gay-rights associatn ABGLT, believ.
THE PLAY’S THE THG NEW BOOK ‘GAYS ON BROADWAY
Brazilian soap stud Bno Gagliasso, whom I've mentned here before, is set to shock Brazilian TV wh s first beijo gay. Gagliasso stars the soap Améri, and will plant a big one on one of his -stars one of the show's fal episos, acrdg to scriptwrer Gloria Perez. Although the Brazilian work airg the kiss has received some plats, Perez not that the amount of plats is ls than predicted: "Obvly I thought there would be some polemic and I expected a torrent of protts agast the kiss. But this hasn't happened, which prov that our untry is changg." Who uld rist a beijo om this hunk? More shots of Gagliasso after the jump: * brazilian gay kiss *
"Telenovelas should engage on subjects related to the society of which they are part of, and that clus gays, " Reis untered a statement.
Homosexualy, though, has been ntually seen as a beyond the pale topic by the untry's top three televisn works, pecially by the market lear Globo, which often pulls close to 50 ln viewers wh s primetime sagas. Dpe the fact that homophobia is still an issue Brazil, the untry is slowly beg more acceptg -- so much so that R Janeiro's tourist board reportedly aims to transform the cy to the pal of gay tourism, even publishg a glossy, rabow-lored brochure packed wh pictur of mcle-bound men and slogans urgg tourists to "e and live the R sensatn.
" It seems to be workg -- last year, 25% of R's tourists, or around 800, 000 people, were gay. Not to mentn that acrdg to the last cens, Brazil has already 60, 000 hoeholds wh gay upl, a number that will likely ntue to grow, sce the untry's Supreme Court led May that same-sex civil unns mt be regnized by the state (Gilberto Braga, the wrer of Insensato Coração, is openly gay and has lived wh his partner for several years).
BRAZILIAN TV GETS S FIRST GAY KISS OM BNO GAGLIASSO
Lus Koka Penteado chose to self-evict after sharg the first gay kiss the history of the show on Big Brother Brazil 21 wh Gilberto Nogueira. * brazilian gay kiss *
Cast & crewUser reviewsVio2005Not Rated1h 31mA llectn of shorts that explor the relatnships between gay men and straight men. Read allA llectn of shorts that explor the relatnships between gay men and straight men.
The llectn clus Espac Dos (Spa) In the Name of the Father (Brazil), My Straight Boyiend (US), Tth or Consequenc (Brazil), Coffee Date (US), Poprn & Coke (UK), and productn, box office & pany PhotosMore like thisReview Half hearted llectn of gay short filmsThis is by far the poort llectn of gay shorts that I've seen marketed.
BIG BROTHER BRAZIL: LUS KOKA SELF-EVICTS AFTER HISTORIC 1ST GAY KISS ON THE SHOW
The first primetime gay male kiss Brazil's history aired on Friday night when Félix and Niko, of Globo work's popular telenovela <em>Amor à Vida</em>, shared a kiss the show's fal episo. * brazilian gay kiss *
The first gay kiss on a Brish soap opera on long-nng East London drama Eastenrs happened way back 1987. In big Brazilian ci like São Plo and R Janeiro, wh their gay districts and gay upl holdg hands on the street, the reactn seemed broadly posive.
In São Plo, wrer Santiago Nazarian liv on Frei Cane street – pronounced ‘Fray Cane’ and nicknamed ‘Gay Cane’ bee of s gay populatn – scribed whoopg and shoutg on the street. “When Mahler began to play (an old alln to Death Venice), I did not even need to lower the volume to hear, here the gay Cane of São Plo, people shoutg, appldg, shoutg ‘thank you’ and ‘uh-huh’. Also São Plo, Eie B was watchg the vio wh three gay iends.
MARVEL ARTIST LLS FOR LGBTQ SOLIDARY BRAZIL AFTER GAY KISS ROW
“I gus most gay guys were secretly prayg for that gay kiss to happen. Prent wh them was one of the gay iend’s mother, who was shoutg: “Vamos Walcyr!
He himself do not have gay iends, but he do know iends of iends who are gay and has no problem socialisg wh them, he told From Brazil.
BRAZIL AIRS FIRST PRIMETIME GAY MALE KISS
The gay kiss quickly beme the theme of a WhatsApp mobile nversatn between Rabelo and different members of his extend fay.
” Yet another chipped : “I have a gay iend and I don’t accept a man kissg another man.
” One guy who supported the kiss said he did not believe gays should marry church.