Brazilian gay parliamentarian resigned for death threats

Jean Wyllys, openly gay Brazilian parliamentarian who has clashed with the president in the past Jair Bolsonaro, announced that will give up his position for death threats and slander against his person.

"Preserving endangered lives is also a strategy for fighting for better days," wrote Wyllys on Twitter, which was scheduled to begin its third term in Congress in February. "We have done a lot for the common good and will do much more when new times come, no matter if we do it in other ways!"

Wyllys, LGBT community rights champion in Congress, he spat against Bolsonaro, then a parliamentarian, in the 2016 vote that ended with the dismissal of President Dilma Rousseff. Prior to last year's elections, a bibadual Wyllys socialist party advisor had been murdered and Bolsonaro had been stabbed while campaigning. A few months after the October elections, Brazilian politics and society remain deeply polarized. Wyllys confessed to the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo who had to seek the protection of the police.

Jair Bolsonaro's most disputed statements include racism, homophobia and more.

In an interview with Bloomberg On Wednesday, Bolsonaro resumed his profile to previous comments, widely criticized and considered homophobic, and claimed that his campaign had garnered support from homobadual voters who they opposed the teaching of "gender ideology" in public schools.

"I have nothing against homobaduals," Bolsonaro said. Bloomberg in Davos. "I have a lot of gay friends"