Latest import into Brazil by Evangelical Christians
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“Brazil is an extremely contradictory country. On the one hand, we are a pink country, celebrating sexual diversity and showing gay couples easily on our telenovelas,” said Luiz Mott, founder of the Grupo Gay da Bahia, an LGBT rights group. “Then, there is another color, the red blood of victims. Brazil has unfortunately inherited deep institutional and cultural homophobia over hundreds of years … and the country has become characterized by extreme violence and rising numbers of murders.”
On the one hand, we are a pink country, celebrating sexual diversity and showing gay couples easily on our telenovelas. Then, there is another color, the red blood of victims. - Luiz Mott, founder of the Grupo Gay da Bahia, speaking of BrazilAccording to his group’s 2014 homicide report, at least 326 lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals were killed in attacks related to their sexual orientation last year, up from 159 in 2004. Last year, 163 victims were gay men and 134 were transgender individuals. The most deaths occurred in Sao Paulo state, the country’s most populous. Per capita, the deadliest state was Paraiba, in the northeast, where Lopes grew up.
Wonder how will the European far-right who often bring up Muslim homophobia will have anything to say about this startling development from Brazil?