Not content to let a week go by without picking on the LGBTQ community, Brazil’s Trumpian President Jair Bolsonaro has slammed the nation’s gay tourism business.
During a meeting with reporters this week, Bolsonaro said of the nation’s thriving travel economy: “If you want to come here and have sex with a woman, go for your life. But we can’t let this place become known as a gay tourism paradise. Brazil can’t be a country of the gay world, of gay tourism. We have families.”
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Needless to say, queer activists lashed out at the President for yet another homophobic remark. LGBTQ activist and University professor of law Renan Quinalha slammed Bolsonaro via Twitter. “Bolsonaro’s statement on gay family and tourism is disastrous for human rights and the international image of Brazil,” Qunalha said. “It authorizes the already alarming violence against LGBTs, by not recognizing other forms of families that are now guaranteed by [Brazilian Supreme Court] decisions.”
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A declaração de Bolsonaro sobre familia e turismo gays é desastrosa para os direitos humanos e para a imagem internacional do Brasil. Ela autoriza a violência, já alarmante, contra LGBTs, ao não reconhecer outras formas de famílias que hoje são asseguradas por decisões do STF ?
— Renan Quinalha (@RenanQuinalha) April 26, 2019
The comments by Bolsonaro mark the latest in a series of attacks on queer people by the Brazilian President. In March, he tweeted out a video of one man urinating on another in response to his anti-LGBTQ attitudes. His administration has also introduced bills to eliminate marriage equality in Brazil, and has called for the removal of all queer-themed curriculum in the nation’s schools. At a White House visit this year, Bolsonaro also said he and Donald Trump had united “in their efforts to ensure liberties and respect the traditional family lifestyles and respect to God, our creator, against the gender ideology and the politically correct attitudes and against fake news.”
James
NAZI TRASH.
Billy Budd
I am brazilian and I would rather have him dead by another knife attack.
Chrisk
Was there ever a fascist dictator that ever not used a group to demonize. Its standard operational procedure so you can consolidate your power while looting the government.
Chrisk
Jews used to be the group that they would go after 50 years ago.
Invader7
Maybe an asteroid , comet or meteor will fall on Bolsanoro, Trump,Pence and ALL of the other knuckle dragging , ass backwards , creepy, Neanderthal cave people and wipe them out. Permanently. The best thing about all of these supposed strong, heteros / breeders is how threatened they are by the GLBTQ’s.. We must have WAY more power than we even realized.. First off I’d get rid of all of the beards-so 3/5 years ago.. Then better haircuts,clothes and ALL men need to get boinked for at least 1-2 hours.. I bet after the boinking a LOT of supposedly hetero men would go gay and NEVER look back. Would also thin out the overpopulated world… Would be good for Mother Earth and the environment … Just saying….
draven
Gross person. Who wants to go to Brazil anyway. It’s very dangerous there. Had more slaves from Africa in the 1800’s then anywhere else. The men there are beautiful especially the brown and darker complexions. But some lighter ones are beautiful too.
jcoberkrom
Just wonder where Brazil’s economy would go if tourist dollars started to dry up!
jimmypalmieri
This closet case lunatic is just another example of how words can cause harm. His hatred for a segment of his constituents, mirrors that of trump, biden and others. What a sad time for the world.
corktownboy
i worked for a large brazzie company. nasty bastards.
Chaucer
Boycott “Carnival”
skyboy63
Donald Trump, traditional family lifestyles??? Really ?
Glenda
It’s an issue where everybody has their reasons and at the same time no one understands the others. I’m a suporter of the trully family values and at the same time I don’t want people to be stigmatized. I understand prostitution but don’t aprouve it. It’s really difficult to choose only one side. Sorry my English, guys but I’m to lazy to correct or edit my text. Besides English isn’t my first language and I’m still leaning it.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Yet another “good Christian” who already has his passage procured, processed, and punched to the darkest corner of the bowels of Hell to burn in agony for all of eternity…