Jair Bolsonaro: "Brazil can not be a paradise for gay tourism, we have families"

Once again, Brazil's President, Jair Bolsonaro, has sparked controversy over his famous homophobic posture. On this occasion, after making sure that his country could not be "a paradise for gay tourismHe said, "If you want to have bad with a woman, go for it. "

"We can not let this place be recognized as a paradise for gay tourism. We have families"he said.

The Bolsonaro statement did not go unnoticed and generated a strong conviction. A member of the Rio de Janeiro Congress, David Miranda, badured The Guardian: "This is not a head of state, it's a national disgrace. It colors the image of our country in every way imaginable. "

In addition, Jean Wyllys, a leading LGTB activist, warned that such comments "They incite hatred."

Bolsonaro who, at one point, came to say that he was "Homophobic and proud to be", usually makes this kind of controversial statements. In fact, at one point, he said that "I could not love a gay son. I would prefer that he die accidentally. "

Panic and deaths in Brazilian LGTBI community

Recently, the Portuguese Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Association (ILGA, for its acronym in English), Marta Ramos, said that in Brazil there is a "drama". "There is an installed panic", said and stressed: "Someone LGTBI does not feel safe. "

Ramos said his workload had recently increased at two key moments: last summer, the "pre-elections" in Brazil and in January, "since the inauguration of the new government," led by the Extreme right. Is it a lot, he says, they want to leave the country of Bolsonaro.

"We have many cases of people who feel hostages in their own home because any public space is dangerous. Because they painted their houses with homophobic or transphobic insults, because there were constant insults in the street without anyone defending them, "he said.

Other more specific cases speak of harbadment at work because of their badual condition. "Some belong to a university where they have always done their job, taught or studied, and now they are starting to be pressured, they can not talk about certain topics, they can not do research in certain areas, they started to suffer from intimidation and persecution by colleagues or students, without the institution defending them, "he said.

Ramos said that although the situation in this country is not new, now they feel safer after the change of government.

"During the pre-election period, several people currently holding a position or potential position spoke openly and negatively about LGTBI people and their families, as well as those who had already Prejudice of homophobia or transphobia they no longer feel illegitimate, they no longer feel isolated, "he said.

The case of Wyllys, the gay MP who resigned

The situation that gained visibility with the departure of the Brazilian homobadual MP Jean Wyllys of the Left Socialist Party and Freedom (PSOL) The leader resigned from his post in January and left, fearing new death threats.

Wyllys dictated the conference a few weeks ago in Lisbon "Why exile Brazil today?", a question to which more and more Brazilians seem to find an answer, according to the testimonies of ILGA Portugal.

The Brazilian NGO Grupo Gay da Bahia has designated Brazil as the state where more and more members of this collective are murdered each year. In 2018, they were posted 320 homicides and 100 suicides, he said in his latest report.

In the document, the organization warned that, based on data from international human rights agencies, "they kill more homobaduals and transbaduals in Brazil than in the 13 countries of East and Africa where the death penalty is pronounced against the LGTBI. "