By now you must’ve heard there is a contestant on Big Brother Brazil, Marcelo Dourado, who is a raging homophobe, and is among a cast that includes three out gay contestants. He makes outrageous claims, like how straight guys cannot contract AIDS, because it’s a gay disease. The blog Made In Brazil is calling for Dourado’s head — in the form of getting enough viewers to vote him out of the house — and we don’t blame him. Television is not a safe space for raging homophobes. And yet …
This guy has all the markings of being an Arthur Kade-type, making statements so outrageous just to see if anyone will listen, and giving you the impression it’s all one big performance art act. And then he takes it one step too far: “Earlier in the season he caught the media attention by saying that heterosexual men could not contract the HIV virus even by having sex with HIV positive women because AIDS only affected gay men,” MIB writes. “After that statement, which was obviously addressed by Globo network, Dourado refused to have conversations which involved any gay topics saying that it disgusted him. He also said he wanted to beat the lesbian contestant and send her to the hospital, but that he couldn’t do it because if he were to physically attack someone he would be automatically eliminated from the show.”
Priorities, people.
drifter
I don’t know about the rest of you but I have no doubt this guy is gay for pay. He looks the type who is so used to being idolized by fat, lonely gay men that it would be a waste of time trying to explain to him that is not gold he is wiping on that toilet paper he uses every morning.
Sit back and laugh and hope we can see him 5 years from now when his “boyish good looks” and star has faded. I am being very generous adding “boyish good lucks” because I personally do not think he is good looking at all. He looks the type I would not pass up in a bath house but would not want to talk to in a bar.
hardmannyc
I’d have to see more photos of him before making a decision.
terrwill
Methinks he doeth protest too loudly……………
delurker
@drifter: “He looks the type who is so used to being idolized by fat, lonely gay men…”
Slight correction. He looks the type that is so used to being idolized and lusted after most gay men regardless of how they look.
Andrew
AGGGGGHHHHHHH – why is it that every time some douche bag making homophobic comments is reported, it is assumed that they are closeted gays. Could it be simply that they are ignorant, stupid, homophobic twats? I certianly do not want to be associated with nut cases.
drifter
@delurker: Thank you for that correction. I thought to reword that but the more I looked at him and thought how “average” he looks when compared to most young gay men who are in the bar scene here in NYC (17 inch arms, 6 pac and buns of steel) I went with who I felt would “idolize” him and I stand with conclusion.
I still don’t think he is worthy of praise and make no apologies for my opinion. I am sorry for those who take my comment personally that they do think so little of themselves they idolize total, stuck on themselves pricks like this guy appears to be.
After looking at the youtube clip supplied I also think it sad the casting directors could not find a nice looking negro that could talk. I saw what appeared to be a living negro doll for all of two seconds twice during the 7 minute clip. Shameful! No doubt they consulted Abercrombie and Fitch for casting ideas.
salty73
This guy is a joke. All he wants is camera time. If he really believes that only gay men can catch AIDS, then tell his dumb-ass to go down to the nearest clinic, hospital or hospice for a few weeks. He will then see the truth. Btw, I do not think he is gay because of the ignorant and obvious statements he made. Also, I don’t want him on out team, even if he later decides to come out. Let the teabaggers keep him. Ew!!!!!
sal(the original)
so i guess he is open to sex with an hiv positive women,hmmm dig ya own grave?
sal(the original)
…and NOOOO meds 4 him,REMEMBER he cant get AIDS
Xtian99
With any luck he will test his theory, have sex with an HIV + woman, and then go on to star in a reality show about a douchbag who dies of AIDS because he could not get AIDS meds b/c AIDS is a gay disease and his insurance carrier denies him access to the medication b/c he is straight.
Call me a Darwinian a-hole, but I say this is the beauty of natural selecton- nature’s way of weeding the mental midgets out of the gene pool. I support him in his belifs and encourage him to believe he is immune to the disease b/c he is straight. Now go hump in peace oh blessed one, and die quick to reduce your carbon foot print.
Tami
I have been seeing clips of the program and wondering if he is homophobic. His defenders say that his friendship with another gay man in the house doesn’t make him a bigot, which I find to be ridiculous, because there are different degrees of homophobia. There’s hate, and then there’s ignorance.
My theory of why he is popular with audiences is that the public appreciates his honesty. Men identify with him and the women are attracted to him.
Avenger
What does he stand for? He has swastikas tatoos FGS!! http://babado.ig.com.br/bbb10/images/158/158/57/7446521.bbb10_dourado_tatuagem_225_300.jpg And most of BB Brazilian viewer’s agree with his points of view, since he was kept in the house after puplic voting.
Lukas P.
Where can I call or vote to get this h8r off the island? So to speak.
BB Brasil has featured gays since its first couple three seasons, but this guy has sunk to a new low. We can’t reliably measure IQs below 35 but we’re always trying to find new people to study.
Men do “catch” HIV from women. Surprise! If he could read, he’d know this.
ousslander
@Andrew: I don’t get it either. Same is done with politicians. They’re nasty peices of work, why would you want to claim them?
Xtian99
Just checked out some links to other pictures of him- he looks like an AIDS-infected chicken!
Jack
He looks like a big muscle power bottom. And I’m sorry but I’m sick of the amount of guys in the gay community idolizing these roided out muscle queens…this d-bag, the cast of Jersey Shore seriously? So I guess one has to be a camera hungry, talentless freak to be appreciated by the gay community now?
jason
I want to eat his ass out.
dontblamemeivotedforhillary
Reality TV Sucks almost as much as…..
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Reality TV obsession of Queerty (who suck!)
Michael
@Andrew:
Perhaps, Andrew, because there’s already been a study done by the University of GA which proved 80% of homophobes get stiffies over gay porn.
No offense but do some research before you spout out about there not being any research on the subject.
Michael
I know I’m gonna get a lot of flack for this but the guy is kinda right. While it’s not impossible for straight men to get it, AIDS usually spreads to the passive partner. If anyone wants to start bitching at me about this I’d at least like to hear from someone who has it who didn’t get it from bottoming. While in theory this guy is absolutely wrong, in reality he’s more right than wrong. Total tops don’t usually catch the bug and totally straight men are total tops. Btw, I speak from experience because if you could catch it from being a top I would have it.
delurker
@Michael: Besides admitting you bareback, you are woefully ignorant if you think tops can’t get HIV. Just because have gotten it yet, doesn’t mean you never will.
Lola
And how he can be teamed with one of the gays in the house?
He is making that just to have his space, he don’t want to be with gays in a sentimental position.
AVENGER:
http://babado.ig.com.br/bbb10/images/158/158/57/7446521.bbb10_dourado_tatuagem_225_300.jpg
THIS IS NOT A SWASTIKAS…this is a manji, Buddhist symbol…
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/af/Photo_of_rss_member.jpg/150px-Photo_of_rss_member.jpg
Please, do a reserach before judding people…you are doing what you saying that he do…
tjr101
He’s internally ugly and it radiates outward, yuck.
Avenger
Lola, don’t try to lecture me about Buddhist symbols. I do know that swastikas existed way before that Nazi shit. But in this case, it would be like if somebody gets a tattoo written “I love cock” and claims it’s about poultries.
B
No. 12 · Avenger : “And most of BB Brazilian viewer’s agree with his points of view, since he was kept in the house after puplic voting.” … An alternate hypothesis is that most BB Brazilian viewer’s want to keep him so they can continue to laugh at him.
Sofia
I am Brazilian, and unfortunately was in the house. We, the gay comnidade are pleased to find sites outside of Brazil that could see the homophobia in the program. We are releasing all these sites and materials to see if so, take that monster in the house! Thanks!
Jean Brazil
He’s not that bad as people say, he said he would beat that girl if SHE WERE A MAN AND HE SAID SHE KNOWS HE’D NEVER DONE IT.you guys don’t speak portuguese, don’t watch the program, try to be a little more imparcial, and also Marcelo Dourado and Angelica were close friends until she betrays him.
Sofia
I was wrong in my comment. I’ve never been in the house! I forgot the place, which unfortunately Dourado has continued there. Thanks for the people who are supporting us, the community that hates homophobia needs to be supported! Thanks!
Sofia
@Jean Brazil: Desculpa, mas você não percebe que o que o Dourado está fazendo vai além de táticas de jogo. Homofobia é crime! Além de um jogo, onde SEMPRE há fofoca, intriga e inimizades, agora tem homofobia, que É SIM, CRIME!
Gabriela
Oh, come on. Who are you to say? You don’t watch the show, you don’t know what you’re talking about. He is NOT an homophobe. He might be a bit ignorant and rude, but he certainly is not an homophobe. People love to distort things. There are two gay guys in the house and despite the little arguements they had, he clearly respects them and all the others. He is not that bad. I’ve seen him in the gym I used to go to and he treats people very gently. He is actually one of the most genuine contestants there are. And I’m saying this as a very liberal person, who’s also against homophobia.
Paul
I do watch the show and I can tell you all, he’s a goddamn homophobe. Gabriela, you look like a sensible person, so what’s your explanation to speaking out loud “I lost my appetite” when one is talking about gay kisses, if not homophobic behaviour?
Sofia
@Gabriela: The comments he makes are so homophobic. And there is nothing to justify it. They may even say that he is a good competitor and has vision, but he was also a beautiful homophobic! Only those who suffer prejudice knows and feels ok?
Sofia
If someone is willing, see a note from a boy who was his student. He told the Dourado that was gay and suffered much in the hands of the teacher and other students!
Here in Brazil, boys are attacking gays saying they are the mafia Dourado!
It’s ridiculous!
Gabriela
I’m not here to defend him. In fact, the one I like the most is Sergio, one of the gay guys. The “I lost my appetite” episode was a stupid thing to say, but I really don’t think it was about the homossexuality. He just wanted to call attention and reafirm the macho thing he sustents. You could see he apologized later that day. He obviously cares about what the viewers will think of him too, but I doubt he’d do any different if they were outside the house and had to live near each other. If you want a clear case of heterophobia, Dicesar also said he thought straight porn was disgusting. I’m just saying both sides can be wrong, but the minorities are always “protected” somehow. And the “mafia Dourado” is not his responsibility, Sofia. Again, people love to distort.
Sofia
I wish the minority were being benefited. Maybe then it would be promoted homophobia? Porn in general is disgusting. There were one or two comments that he made. And he always apologizes later, because he knows that there is a world out here watching everything. I know, for those who never suffered prejudice as well, right away, it is difficult to understand. A person need not hit or kill a gay man to be called homophobic. And have you ever stopped to look at how many sites say the same thing? International sites mainly! Many! They can not all be wrong! The images are being viewed by all. And they are talking so they see! I have here, saved, many sites and materials.
Gabriela
Wow, Sofia, you’re just showing how narrow minded you are. I didn’t say he didn’t care about the public. How many times do we offend people without actually meaning to and then have to apologize? I have suffered prejudice, if you wanna know, and I’m not even gay. Anyway, I have gay friends who agree with me and want Dourado to stay. And yes, the sites can be wrong. Specially the international ones, as most of them just go with the flow. I mean, when have Boy Jorge ever watched BB Brazil? I didn’t get your first statement about the minorities and promoting homophobia. If you want to, you can write parts in portuguese in order to be a bit more clear.
Remvs
@Gabriela:
Oh, only “a bit ignorant and rude.” Even if this was the case, it would be enough to get him out — ignorance and rudeness need to be wiped out from society. We’ve been dancing this pathetic macho dance for too long — time to get rid of the garbage.
But the catch is: he is rude, but not so much of an ignorant. He’s the worst kind of bigot — the one who’s not ignorant of evidence, but the one who has seen the evidence and active CHOOSES to ignore it. And he’s also a liar. He said a medical doctor told him that “only gay man get AIDS” — are you naïve or uneducated enough to fall for that crap? No doctor would say that. Damn, even someone who’s just graduated from high school wouldn’t be so ignorant about science — can you imagined someone who’s studied biology-related subjects for years saying something THAT wrong? Conclusion: no doctor told him anything, beacause no doctor would be that stupid. It was Dourado’s own prejudice and bigotry talking. YES, he’s a homophobe. And a sly one, willing to make up lies to hide his medieval mindset.
The part that fills me with dread: the public seems to agree with his retrograde-small-town-mentality. I knew Brazil still had a backwards macho culture, but this is apalling. What the public says with their votes is: this is a medieval hell hole in which only straight people are considered worthy — “you queers just shut up, keep on being second-class citizens while we revel in our bigotry.”
Gabriela
What the hell? Where do you live, Remvs? I can say bad unfundamented things about your country too. You can hate Dourado all you want, but I can’t stand people talking crap like that. The gay guy is more popular than him! Brazil carries a big beautiful gay community. The Aids thing is what showed the ignorance in him. OF COURSE I don’t agree with it. But you have to agree, if he is willing to make up this lies, like you said, to hide this mistakes, he’s got to have conscience about them. It tells he knows about how society works nowadays and that prejudice is not well seen. Maybe he’s trying to stop, for his own good and his own interests in winning the prize. YOU DON’T KNOW. And I don’t know either. We don’t know him. That’s what I’m trying to say, you’re being just as judgemental as he sometimes is.
Gabriela
(Sorry about the misspelled words, I was in a hurry)
JB
Hey All
he is again in votation… PLEASE help us to get this guy out!
vote on him, clik on his picture!
http://bbb.globo.com/
Gabriela
I’m glad you couldn’t. He’s going to the finale. You should have seen the host’s speech and how they (Dourado and Dicesar, the last gay standing) recognized the respect for each other. Dourado is not a bad person. Sorry, but the gays in the show distroyed their own images, they deserved to leave.
Mauricio
He used violence, intimidation and aggressive speach to fight againt the the gay participants, im sad the gay participants were not well educated to fight at the same level, but the most sad is the Tv program allowed that to happen, even if he were entirely wrong. Here is the video were Marcelo Dourado punch the grass several times because he lost a resistant test against a woman, all about intimidation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A3uq7pP68c
Gabriela
Gooosh, Mauricio, he was punching the grass because he was MAD, because he lost for a small mistake of his! NOT because he lost to a woman. That’s what I mean when I say people like to see what’s not there! You’re just making stuff up. Well, he won, unfortunately, it’s done now, right?
Gabriela
It was an important test, by the way. He lost more than U$120,000.00 (220,000.00 reais) and the imunity, which meant he had great chances of being eliminated, on this. He apologized to her later, to make it clear that he was mad at himself, not her or anyone else, and she understood.
Nonbreeder
@Michael:
I agree with Michael. No totally unversatile circumcised (no lesions either) top has ever caught it from sexual intercourse.
That bothers people to grasp that fact, but it is what it is. They are circumcising men in Africa at this time to try and cut down on the epidemic there. Nothing travels all the way up the male urethra and into the bloodstream. Otherwise we’d have soap, hard water, face scrub, shavng cream and everything else from the shower up our urethras and in our bloodstream.