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Contents:

• BOLSONARO: BRAZIL MT NOT BEE 'GAY TOURISM PARADISE'
• BRAZIL MT NOT BEE A 'GAY TOURISM PARADISE', SAYS BOLSONARO
• BRAZILIAN POTENTIAL PRINTIAL NDIDATE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
• WH BRAZIL'S BOLSONARO ATTACKG THE SUPREME COURT, ARE GAY RIGHTS AT RISK?

BOLSONARO: BRAZIL MT NOT BEE 'GAY TOURISM PARADISE'

Image source, EPAImage ptn, Print Bolsonaro has been cricised the past for his public statements on homosexualyBrazilian Print Jair Bolsonaro has been cricised for sistg the untry shouldn't bee a "gay tourism paradise". "Brazil n't be a untry of the gay world, of gay tourism.

We have fai, " he Bolsonaro has already drawn ire for beg a self-scribed "homophobic" reportedly ma his latt ments at a breakfast meetg wh reporters the untry's pal Brasí immediate backlash has been prompted om Brazil's LGBT muny.

"He is stag the image of our untry every imagable way, " Mr Miranda Brazilian print, a former army pta, is a eply divisive figure whose racist, homophobic and misogynistic remarks have angered prev terviews he has said he would rather have a ad son than a homosexual son. Brazil’s far-right print, the self-clared homophobe Jair Bolsonaro, has been acced of cg hatred towards LGBT people after clarg the South Amerin untry should not bee a “gay tourism paradise”. “But we n’t let this place bee known as a gay tourism paradise.

BRAZIL MT NOT BEE A 'GAY TOURISM PARADISE', SAYS BOLSONARO

Brazil n’t be a untry of the gay world, of gay tourism. “All this monstrat is … somethg that he has ma nsistently clear over nearly 30 years of public life: that he is a homophobe, ” Qualha a vio posted on Twter, Jean Wyllys, another proment LGBT mpaigner, said the ments ced hatred agast mori.

Bolsonaro’s electn last October stunned members of Brazil’s LGBT muny, who fear his electn has legimised a new wave of homophobia and homophobic vlence. Bolsonaro, a former army pta, has long been notor for his homophobic ments, once clarg: “Y, I’m homophobic – and very proud of . ”Durg a 2013 terview wh the Brish actor Stephen Fry, Bolsonaro claimed “homosexual fundamentalists” were brawashg heterosexual children to “bee gays and lbians to satisfy them sexually the future” told Fry “Brazilian society don’t like homosexuals.

Bolsonaro’s remarks are the latt blow to longstandg Brazilian attempts to build an ternatnal reputatn as a tolerant and clive society, as well as to efforts to promote Brazil as a welg statn for gay tourists. “We will une people, value the fay, rpect religns and our Juo-Christian tradn, bat genr iology and rcue our valu, ” Bolsonaro said at his New Year’s Day admistratn’s actns are raisg ncerns among liberals, who are bracg for polici embraced by a print who once said he would prefer a ad son to a gay son.

BRAZILIAN POTENTIAL PRINTIAL NDIDATE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

Last month, Jean Wyllys, Brazil’s only openly gay ngrsman, gave up his seat and fled the untry amid ath threats and hateful msag. In recent years, killgs of LGBT Brazilians have soared, a trend activists say is gettg worse as homophobic rhetoric fds an official crim Sao Plo, Brazil’s largt cy, peaked the months leadg up to October’s printial electn, as Bolsonaro, once a ge polician, entered the mastream. Homophobic hate crim particular rose 75 percent durg those months.

When a man behd them started shoutg homophobic slurs, sayg they should die, his hband nonted the man, he man stabbed Pl wh a Swiss army knife, he said.

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

Governor Eduardo Lee of R Gran do Sul uld challenge Jair Bolsonaro, who has poed anti-gay rhetoric.

Brazilian ernor and potential major party printial ndidate Eduardo Lee, a proment cric of Print Jair Bolsonaro, me out as gay a TV terview. Lee, ernor of the southern state of R Gran do Sul, would be the first openly gay printial ndidate Brazil.

Anti-gay rhetoric has been a staple of speech by Bolsonaro, who once clared that if he had a gay son, he would rather the child died an accint. “But durg this moment of low tegry Brazil, I have nothg to hi, I am gay. I am a ernor who is gay, not a gay ernor, as former Print Obama the US was a print who was Black, not a Black print.