Wh Brazil's Bolsonaro attackg the Supreme Court, are gay rights at risk? | Rters

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• GAY COUPL RH TO WED BEFORE BRAZIL’S NEW PRINT TAK OFFICE
• WH BRAZIL'S BOLSONARO ATTACKG THE SUPREME COURT, ARE GAY RIGHTS AT RISK?
• GAY BRAZILIANS SH TO WED BEFORE 'HOMOPHOBIC' PRINT-ELECT TAK OFFICE
• PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE BRAZIL 2022, BY AGE

GAY COUPL RH TO WED BEFORE BRAZIL’S NEW PRINT TAK OFFICE

REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghi/File PhotoSept 26 (Rters) - Cubans overwhelmgly approved gay marriage and adoptn a ernment-backed referendum on Sunday, a landmark vote half a century after a wave of state persecutn sent many homosexual people to forced labor mps and to is a timele on same-sex marriage across Lat Ameri and the Caribbean:Pre-2010 - Only a handful of untri worldwi regnize same-sex marriage, mostly Europe.

2011 - Brazil's Supreme Court l that gay upl stable relatnships should have the same rights as heterosexual upl terms of retirement benefs, herance and alimony. 2013 - France legaliz gay marriage, changg the law s overseas Caribbean terrori of Gualoupe, Martique and French Guea.

WH BRAZIL'S BOLSONARO ATTACKG THE SUPREME COURT, ARE GAY RIGHTS AT RISK?

2016 - Colombia's nstutnal urt legaliz same-sex marriage, five months after legalizg adoptn for gay upl. 1, 2019, guratn of Print Jair Bolsonaro, who once lled himself a "proud homophobe.

Read more 2022 - Cubans overwhelmgly approve gay marriage and adoptn a ernment-backed September referendum. Colonial-era "buggery" laws banng gay sex were overturned parts of the Caribbean but still exist some untri cludg Jamai and Barbados. Public OpnPublic opn Brazil appears to be somewhat divid on LGBTQ+ issu, as evinced by recent SurveysViews on Homosexualy Thk homosexualy should be accepted by society as a whole of Brazilians thk homosexualy should be accepted by society of Brazilians thk society accept homosexualy of Brazilians thk homosexualy should be accepted by societyHistoryHomosexual activy Brazil?

GAY BRAZILIANS SH TO WED BEFORE 'HOMOPHOBIC' PRINT-ELECT TAK OFFICE

Homosexual activy Brazil is legal. AmbiguoAlthough the Brazilian nstutn of 1988 prohibs any form of discrimatn, was not until 2019 that homosexuals and trans people were fively regnized as one of the adoptn Brazil? Current statSce Jan 2013Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned After Supreme Feral Court regnn, LGB people n serve openly ary Brazil.

PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE BRAZIL 2022, BY AGE

BannedThe same judge changed his cisn, keepg the “treatment” bannedIn September 2017, a feral judge Brasília approved the e of nversn therapy by a psychologist to “cure” people of homosexualy, overlg the 1999 cisn. BannedBanned by Brazil's Feral Psychology Council: "psychologists shall not llaborate events or servic offerg treatment and cure for homosexualy.

Bolsonaro — a far-right polician who once clared “I’m homophobic, wh pri” — changed their lculatns. Bolsonaro, for years a mor figure Congrs bt known for his outbursts agast women, gay people and black people, managed to turn Brazil’s rampant polil rptn and vlent crime to an electn opportuny, billg himself as the ndidate who would rtore law and also won over many voters wh his culturally nservative agenda. While mpaigng, he acced prev left-leang ernments of distributg “gay ks” schools, a reference to sexual tn materials that he said “perverted” many the L.

“People now have this open homophobic disurse that they were too embarrassed to say before, ” said Ms. Bolsonaro and kill leftists, femists and gay Moriyama for The New York TimMs. Bolsonaro, then a ndidate, would kill gay Zannata, a passnate Palmeiras fan, had always gone to their gam, she said.

”As gay upl flocked to public notari, support flood on social media and at hastily arranged weddgs. ” Moriyama for The New York TimCake-makers, weddg planners, photographers and disc jockeys have e forward, offerg their servic for ee, while gay rights activists have anized a seri of group a recent ceremony, anized by volunteers at a nverted factory São Plo, four upl that had bbled together their weddgs ls than three weeks gathered at the altar. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 13 of the New York edn wh the headle: Gay Weddgs Brazil Surge After Electn.

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.