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School where they boy studied and was assaulted by other studentes: Escola Estadual Doutor José Eduardo Vieira Raduan Teenage boy bashed for having two fathers didn't resist and died By Sergio Viula Teenager Peterson Ricardo de Oliveira, 14 years old, died in the afterrnoon of last Monday, March 9th, after being assaulted by other students in a public school in the city of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, state of São Paulo According to one of his fathers, the assault was due to the fact that he was the son of a gay couple. “I didn’t know that my son suffered prejudice for being the sono of a gay couple. We’ve been informed by the police chief. We are sad and have decided to disclose what happened so this does not happen again with other children”, said Márcio Nogueira, during an interview to R7 site, one of the biggest site of news in Brazil. Reportedly, he was assaulted at the school entrance by several boys and became ill four hours later. The teenager was hospitalized but did not...

  19th Copacabana LGBT Pride Parade - 2014.  Watch Copacabana Pride Parade short video here: Joyful resilience is our biggest weapon.

What's happening in Brazil?  Fundamentalists don't hide they intend to take over. And to achieve their goals, they have been using media, politics and money - a lot of money. Oddly enough, the second biggest parade of Brazil, the largest celebration in Rio, actually, was postponed from September to November because of the City Hall's interference. We stand strong, though. 

President Dilma Rousseff: resilient in silence and omission about LGBT rights Dilma has offered no support to LGBT people in practice. One of the most faithful affiliations to the Workers' Party is definitely Ms Dilma Rousseff, elected president of Brazil two years ago. Believe it or not, PT - Workers' Party to which Dilma is affiliated - used to be demonized by Catholics and Evangelicals before President Lula's election (her predecessor). One of the principal reasons is that PT used to be seen as a radical left-wing party, with comunist ideas. Actually, PT is known to have borne flags such as those of women's rights, LGBT rights, the agrarian reform, workers' rights, Indians' rights and other causes that nagged most of the denominations as well as the Catholic church itself.  What nobody could have ever imagined is that after 8 years (two mandates) with President Lula followed by two more years with President Dilma (there are still tw...

André Cardoso Gomes Baliera, 27 Photo by Veja Magazine - Brazil With information from UOL 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 Te...

Position of the UN Expanded Theme Group on HIV/AIDS in Brazil on fighting violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity We, members of the UN Expanded Theme Group on HIV/AIDS in Brazil (GT/UNAIDS), comprised by the institutions listed below and attending the special meeting on October 10, 2012 in Brasilia/DF, at the Representation of the European Union in Brazil, in character of urgency, to analyse the problem of homophobia in general and of homophobic crimes in particular, their impact on the HIV epidemic in Brazil and the constant violations of human rights of LGBT population in all its aspects, as well as to ensure a nationwide commitment to intensifying initiatives to strengthen the AIDS response and to promote the decrease of such violations.

Fifteen gay activists receive death threats in Brazil Note: Brazil map - The state of Paraná is highlighted in blue on the map Fifteen activists from Curitiba, state capital of Paraná, Brazil report they have been receiving constant death threats 24 October 2012 | By Dan Littauer Fiften activists from Curitiba, Brazil have revealed today that they have been receiving constant death threats since the last week of September. All the threats are of a homophobic nature and characteristic of hate crimes expressing a high degree of cruelty. They have been being received by telephone at home and at work, by mobile phone, e-mail and social media since the last week of September. The phone calls are being made from public telephones. Among the 15 threatened are Márcio Marins, president of the NGO Dom da Terra and Toni Reis, president of ABGLT – the national Brazilian LGBT association. Reis revealed that one of the threats he received by phone said: 'You are going to die, y...

LGBT global news 24-7 280 gay hate murders in Brazil and Peru in 2011 A report suggests the risk of a gay man being murdered in Brazil is 800% higher than in the US 01 JUNE 2012 | BY JEAN PAUL ZAPATA Sex-rights groups in Peru and Brazil announced the number of homosexual killings in 2011. Brazil's Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB) documented 266 murders of gays, lesbians and transvestites in Brazil last year, six more than in 2010. According to Professoe Luiz Mott, an anthropologist at the Federal University of Bahia and founder of the GGB: 'The underreporting of these crimes is striking, indicating that the number represents just the tip of an iceberg of cruelty and blood. 'Since the federal government refuses to build a database on hate crimes against homosexuals, we based this report on newspaper and online news, which is certainly far from covering all of these claims.' The report confirm's Brazil's position as the place with the most homophobic murders in th...