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

Contents:

• RAPE OF GAY HIGH SCHOOL STUNT WAS IGNORED, ACRDG TO LAWSU
• THIS GAY TEEN WAS RAPED
• A 16-YEAR-OLD WENT TO A GAY BAR WH A FAKE I.D. AND THGS COULD’VE END TERRIBLY IF NOT FOR THIS DRAG QUEEN
• ‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN
• THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
• PARTY DG ED TO RAPE, FILM ATOSE GAY MEN: UK DOCUMENTARY

RAPE OF GAY HIGH SCHOOL STUNT WAS IGNORED, ACRDG TO LAWSU

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You see I would never be typg this had not been for my olr brother – a man that happens to be gay.

And I’d be a total liar if I didn’t adm to g words like that too – even though at the time I knew full well my own brother was gay.

THIS GAY TEEN WAS RAPED

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A 16-YEAR-OLD WENT TO A GAY BAR WH A FAKE I.D. AND THGS COULD’VE END TERRIBLY IF NOT FOR THIS DRAG QUEEN

“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. ”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”.

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

”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.

“One of my iends said: ‘What, are you gay now? ’ I jt said ‘I’m not gay, I was raped’.

THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

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PARTY DG ED TO RAPE, FILM ATOSE GAY MEN: UK DOCUMENTARY

He travels to the untry to meet his boyiend’s mother who had no ia her ad son was gay or had a lover, and the sry brother Francis (Pierre-Yv Cardal). In 1984, when Calv Burde was awag sentencg for allegedly stabbg his gay lover to ath, the prosecutg attorney enuraged the jury his closg remarks to award Burde the ath penalty, rather than life prison, on the grounds that sendg a gay man to prison was ak to sendg a kid to a ndy store. His ath sentence was later overturned (mostly bee Burde's public fenr had slept through much of his trial), but the homophobic thkg – that prison is some kd of paradise for gay men – lgers realy of life prison for homosexuals and transgenr dividuals do not appear to reflect this myth.

He scribed a lany of btal rap, asslts, beatgs and, eventually, the total abandonment of his male inty as his only means of survival the hyper-mascule and often homophobic prison environment.