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"Brasil, Se Voce e Gay, Ninguem Escuta Voce Gritar" 250 LGBT Assassinados em 2010(em Portugues)
(250 casos documentados)

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Brazil: If You're Gay, No One Can Hear You Scream(em Ingles)

by Mindy Townsend · January 18, 2011
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We’ve been bombarded in recent months with stories of suicide of gay youth (another one today, in fact.) But there is a place in the New World where homophobes don’t even bother berating and bullying LGBT people until their lives have no meaning; they take the life outright.
Welcome to Brazil.
Grupo Gay da Bahia has documented 250 homophobic murders last year. That comes out to one murder every day and a half.
Did you hear me? Every day and a half.
The number is to be included in the GGB’s official annual report due out in March, but unless that number is pared down by about, well, 100 percent, it’s pretty astonishing. Not only is the number of lives lost simply appalling, but it is on the rise. In 2009, the number of murders of gay individuals was 198 and in the previous 10 years there was one homophobic murder every three days. Now it is one every day and a half.
I don’t think I can say that too much. One every day and a half.
To put that number in perspective, coming in second in murders of gay men is Mexico with 35 per year, and the United States with 25, according to Luiz Mott, a Brazilian anthropologist and gay-rights activist. Still too high, to be sure. But 250, it ain’t.

What is going on here? Mott says that lethal crime is also increasing in Brazil, but that crimes where the victim is gay come with much more impunity. After hate crimes legislation was introduced this past November, there was a widespread backlash that manifested itself in posts to social media websites inciting violence against the gay community and "corrective rape" of lesbians. There were incidents of violence at both the Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo gay pride parades. The perpetrators of the violence is Sao Paulo have already been released because the judge in the case did not deem them a threat to society. (Not heterosexual society, I guess. And that’s the only society that matters, right?)
I am a big believer of the law changing social norms and values. And until Brazil passes more stringent laws against such bias-motivated crimes and actually enforces them, I am afraid nothing will change for the Brazilian LGBT community. If the people who make the rules do nothing, it is tacit approval of the murder of hundreds of men and women a year, and thousand over the past decade. Please join me in demanding justice.
Photo Credit: haprev214
Mindy Townsend is a recent law graduate.


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COMMENTS (7)

  • Things are getting worse here in Brazil. The religious fundamentalists are growing and making more and more representatives in the congress every election. We have no hope at all that any anti-hate legislation will be approved any time soon. The midia is not helping and the majority of the society - even people who call thenselves gay-friendly - think that homophobia is only killing gays, everything else is ok. 
    about 1 month ago
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    • By any chance do you know what religion they are, and more importantly do americans have any cause to this, like we do in so many african and south american countries?
      about 1 month ago
    • Mainly protestant priests with the same old same "Family Friendly" talk...

      Religion and politics should not be connected, but it seems like people are not aware of that. Last year's election was "Who'd get the religious fundamentalists votes?". It was all about having the church (catholic and protestant) supporting them.

      I can't see the connection between Brazilian's behavior and if/how american affect us. Maybe I'm just being oblivious.
      about 1 month ago
    • The way of life and government has been the on going problem for years.
      about 1 month ago
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  • It's unfortunate that hundreds of homophobic murders have occured in 2010 and that the number of those type of murders has increased. It's also unfortunate that 'corrective rape' is also found in Brazil. Brazil has a long way to go, not half way there but further behind, so that LGBT people there can be respected on their basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
    about 1 month ago
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    • Hate is never the way to go and the ones that go in that direction end up pay ing for it in the end. 
      about 1 month ago
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  • Even though that Brazil is way ahead of the United States when it comes to respecting the relationships of same-sex couples under the law, it is still a third world country where the rich control all the power and the poor are left to live in what they call "favelas" a.k.a. shanty towns. When you have a disproportionate amount of uneducated people numbering in the millions having only the black market to turn to make ends meet then this is bound to happen. Ignorance breeds intolerance. Let us not forget the still powerful influence of the Catholic Church in Brazil and Latin America for that matter. When things are a mess, unfortunately...people come after the LGBT's. Hopefully some serious changes will be implemented to stop this insanity from going on any further.
    about 1 month ago
      

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