A s a gay man growg up Brazil, Afif Sarhan was banned om donatg blood for most of his life.
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WH BRAZIL'S BOLSONARO ATTACKG THE SUPREME COURT, ARE GAY RIGHTS AT RISK?
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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.
While Recife is beg one of the major ci the northeast for domtic gay tourism, is one of the ci wh the largt number of anti-Bolsonaro vot. Loted two hours north of R Janeiro by r is the cy of Juiz Fora, which has hosted the Miss Gay Brazil ntt for the past 35 years.
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.
A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay upl. The lg, published on Friday, followed a se brought by a gay Pevian cizen who sued the registratn office for refg to rerd her 2019 marriage overseas, sayg her nstutnal rights were vlated. Pe is one of the few untri Lat Ameri that has not regnized same-sex marriage, though is not illegal to be gay. * brazil gay rights *
Gay Surf Brazil, anized by Brazil Ejourneys, is the only LGBTQ+ surf mp South Ameri and tak place March. A far-right figure, Bolsonaro claimed a 2011 terview wh Play Boy that he would rather have a ad son than a gay one. 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. In June 2019, the Supreme Court furthered s protectn of LGBTQ+ people by crimalizg homophobia and transphobia.
FILE PHOTO: Pevian urt opens door to legally regnize same-sex uplLIMA (Rters) - A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay lg, published on Friday, followed a se brought by a gay Pevian cizen who sued the registratn office for refg to rerd her 2019 marriage overseas, sayg her nstutnal rights were vlated.
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Reprentativ of the office were not immediately available for is one of the few untri Lat Ameri that has not regnized same-sex marriage, though is not illegal to be gay. However, 61% disapproved of gay people public Lima urt orred the rerds office to "proceed wh the registratn" of the woman's marriage, the Superr Court of Jtice of Lima said on urt clared "applible" an article of the Pevian Civil Co of 1984 on the fay, which refers to marriage as the voluntary unn between man and is likely that an appeal agast the lg will be 2020, a gay uple took Pe to the Inter-Amerin Court of Human Rights after they lost a bid for regnn of their Mexin marriage the time, the nstutnal urt led that the civil registry of Pe only regniz the marriage between a man and a untri South Ameri, cludg Argenta, Uguay, Brazil and Colombia, have legalized gay marriage recent years.
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. ”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. 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.