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Brazilian LGBT up to protest in front of Russian representations
Brazilian LGBT up to protest in front of Russian representations
It's been scheduled for Friday, August 23rd, 2013. Brazilian LGBT people will protest against the Russian Government homophobia and support the rights of lesbian, gays, bisexuals and transgender in Russia. It's time to stop Putin's atrocities.
Kissing rallies and artistic interventions have been planned to happen in front of the following Russian representations in three Brazilian big cities:
Embassy of Russia in Brasília (capital of Brazil)
Address: Avenida das Nações, SES, Qd.801, Lote A, Brasília-DF, CEP: 70476-900
Russian Consulate in Rio de Janeiro
Address: Rua Professor Azevedo Marquês, 50-Leblon, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, CEP: 22450-030
Russian Consulate in São Paulo
Address: Avenida Lineu de Paula Machado, 1336, Jardim Everest, São-Paulo-SP, CEP: 05601-001
The event is being organized by this group on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/336300569838131/?ref=notif¬if_t=plan_user_invited
Gay Kissing Rally - The Pope in Brazil - World Youth Walk 2013
A protest and kissing rally led by transfeminsts and LGBT people took place on July 22nd, 2013 on the famous square named Largo do Machado, in Rio. The protest was followed by a walk as far as the Guanabara Palace, where Pope Francis gave his first official speech in Brazil.
Organized by a group of LGBT citizens over Facebook, the protest was not labeled with any LGBT advocacy groups' names. According to one of the organizers, the protest had been planned since the previous Pope Benedictus XVI gave a speech in the end of 2012, saying that same-sex partners' families were a threat to the world and that we are the evil in the world.
"There is no interest in meeting up with the Pope, we have nothing to demand from the church. We do not want or need any religion to legitimate our sexualities. We just want them to be respected. (...) People usually don't link religious statements with the killing of Transvestites and Transexuals, or with the aggressions suffered by lesbians and gay men, as if physical violence did not find in the religious approach,which assaults on our sexualities, enough moralist support." - says one of the organizers.
Organized by a group of LGBT citizens over Facebook, the protest was not labeled with any LGBT advocacy groups' names. According to one of the organizers, the protest had been planned since the previous Pope Benedictus XVI gave a speech in the end of 2012, saying that same-sex partners' families were a threat to the world and that we are the evil in the world.
"There is no interest in meeting up with the Pope, we have nothing to demand from the church. We do not want or need any religion to legitimate our sexualities. We just want them to be respected. (...) People usually don't link religious statements with the killing of Transvestites and Transexuals, or with the aggressions suffered by lesbians and gay men, as if physical violence did not find in the religious approach,which assaults on our sexualities, enough moralist support." - says one of the organizers.
Some of the organizers
The banners read: IN EVERY KISS, A REVOLUTION
The banner reads: Get out of the closet
Em Português
Um protesto e um beijaço liderados por transfeministas e pessoas LGBT ocorreram em 22 de julho de 2013, na famosa praça Largo do Machado, no Rio de Janeiro. O protesto foi seguido por uma caminhada até o Palácio Guanabara, onde o Papa Francisco fez seu primeiro discurso oficial no Brasil.
Organizado por um grupo de cidadãos LGBT através do Facebook, o protesto não foi associado a nomes de grupos de defesa dos direitos LGBT. Segundo um dos organizadores, o ato vinha sendo planejado desde que o Papa Bento XVI fez um discurso no final de 2012, afirmando que famílias de parceiros do mesmo sexo eram uma ameaça ao mundo e que nós seríamos o mal no mundo.
"Não há interesse em encontrar o Papa, não temos nada a exigir da Igreja. Não queremos nem precisamos de nenhuma religião para legitimar nossas sexualidades. Só queremos que elas sejam respeitadas. (...) As pessoas geralmente não relacionam declarações religiosas com o assassinato de travestis e transexuais, ou com as agressões sofridas por lésbicas e gays, como se a violência física não encontrasse no discurso religioso, que ataca nossas sexualidades, um apoio moralista suficiente." – diz um dos organizadores.
Alguns dos organizadores
"EM CADA BEIJO, UMA REVOLUÇÃO"
"SAIA DO ARMÁRIO"
Gay couple adopts second daughter just to find out she is their first daughter's biological sister
Gay couple adopts second daughter just to find out she is their first daughter's biological sister
Last December stored a surprise for the first gay couple to have adopted a child in Brazil. Four years after adopting Teodora, Vasco & Junior decided to try a second adoption, just to find out that this second child, only 2 years old, was Teodora's sister, now at the age of 11.
In 2008 their case made headlines on Fantástico, a very popular Brazilian TV programme, when they were granted the right to have their names registered as Teodora's parents on her birth certificate.
Vasco says that he noticed see so many similarities between the two girls that he decided to go to the city court in order to find out who Helena's biological mother was. However, no details about her background were given until they were finally granted the adoption.
Differently from Teodora, Helena was immediately registered as their daughter without the need of later additions.
The couple say that they won't stick to only two daughters, though. They intend to adopt another one, says Vasco enthusiastically.
Vasco and Junior with their two daughters
Last December stored a surprise for the first gay couple to have adopted a child in Brazil. Four years after adopting Teodora, Vasco & Junior decided to try a second adoption, just to find out that this second child, only 2 years old, was Teodora's sister, now at the age of 11.
In 2008 their case made headlines on Fantástico, a very popular Brazilian TV programme, when they were granted the right to have their names registered as Teodora's parents on her birth certificate.
Vasco says that he noticed see so many similarities between the two girls that he decided to go to the city court in order to find out who Helena's biological mother was. However, no details about her background were given until they were finally granted the adoption.
Differently from Teodora, Helena was immediately registered as their daughter without the need of later additions.
The couple say that they won't stick to only two daughters, though. They intend to adopt another one, says Vasco enthusiastically.
Brazilian law student suffers homophobic attack
André Cardoso Gomes Baliera, 27
Photo by Veja Magazine - Brazil
Translated by Sergio Viula
Law student André Cardoso Gomes Baliera, 27, -- attacked by two young men on Monday (December 3, 2012) in Pinheiros, a well-off neighborhood in the west side of São Paulo -- issued a video last Thursday (6) reassuring he was a victim of homophobia.
Joel Cordaro, lawyer of Diego Mosca Lorena de Souza, 29, personal trainer, and of Bruno Paulossi Portieri, 25, student of logistics, allegeded last Wednesday (5) there was no homophobia.
Both of the men were caught red-handed and reported for murder attempt. Co-ordinator of Policies for Sexual Diversity, Heloísa Gama Alves, announced that Souza and Portieri will be prosecuted on the basis of São Paulo state law against homophobia (state law number 10.948/2001).
According to the Military Police, Baliera was returning on foot from a drugstore when he was cursed by the two young men who were in a car parked on the corner of Teodoro Sampaio St. and Henrique Schaumann St.
In his report at the police station, the victim said that he was called "faggot, son of a bitch and fucking fag" as he crossed the street.
After Baliera replied to the insults, Portieri and Souza got out of the car and kicked and punched him badly.
Police officers who were nearby arrested the two offenders and took them to the 91st Police Department where a report for murder attempt was filed.
Baliera had a cut on the head and several wounds. He was taken to hospital and dismissed later.
The case will be investigated by the 14th Police Department (Pinheiros).
Up to this month, about 300 LGBT people have been murdered in Brazil out of homophobia. Yet, the bill related to criminalizing homomphobia in Brazil is stuck in the Parliament due to a fundamentalist board's lobby in the Congress.
Nonetheless, President Dilma Rousseff could do something, but she hasn't ever spoken against homophobia.
Speak up, Dilma. Act up, Mrs. President. It's high time Your Excellency did something about it.
Joel Cordaro, lawyer of Diego Mosca Lorena de Souza, 29, personal trainer, and of Bruno Paulossi Portieri, 25, student of logistics, allegeded last Wednesday (5) there was no homophobia.
Both of the men were caught red-handed and reported for murder attempt. Co-ordinator of Policies for Sexual Diversity, Heloísa Gama Alves, announced that Souza and Portieri will be prosecuted on the basis of São Paulo state law against homophobia (state law number 10.948/2001).
According to the Military Police, Baliera was returning on foot from a drugstore when he was cursed by the two young men who were in a car parked on the corner of Teodoro Sampaio St. and Henrique Schaumann St.
In his report at the police station, the victim said that he was called "faggot, son of a bitch and fucking fag" as he crossed the street.
After Baliera replied to the insults, Portieri and Souza got out of the car and kicked and punched him badly.
Police officers who were nearby arrested the two offenders and took them to the 91st Police Department where a report for murder attempt was filed.
Baliera had a cut on the head and several wounds. He was taken to hospital and dismissed later.
The case will be investigated by the 14th Police Department (Pinheiros).
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NOTE BY THIS BLOGGER:
Up to this month, about 300 LGBT people have been murdered in Brazil out of homophobia. Yet, the bill related to criminalizing homomphobia in Brazil is stuck in the Parliament due to a fundamentalist board's lobby in the Congress.
Nonetheless, President Dilma Rousseff could do something, but she hasn't ever spoken against homophobia.
Speak up, Dilma. Act up, Mrs. President. It's high time Your Excellency did something about it.
Ex-Gay Undercover: John Becker's investigation on anti-gay religious extremists
https://youtu.be/vY5-VadXfJo
John Becker is an activist who investigates anti-gay religious extremists. IN THE LIFE follows Becker into the Bachmann clinic in Minnesota where he discovers the ongoing practice of debunked reparative therapies.
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