A cover of Folha de Sao Paulo against homophobia …

One of the best-selling newspapers in Brazil, Sao Paulo Folha, responded to the homophobia of the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella, with a cover in tribute to the cartoon of the kiss between two men that the evangelical politician had censored at the International Biennale. The former evangelical bishop ordered the removal of the show from the exhibition "Avengers, Marvel's Crusade of Children" on the rays of the exhibition "inappropriate" for minors.

But his decision, described as an act of censorship by various institutions, had the opposite effect: quickly, the comic figures were exhausted and netizens flooded the hashtag networks. #LeaConOrgullo, in support of the LGBT community (bad, gay, bibadual and transgender).

"Crivella tries to censor a gay kiss, but justice forbids", today titled Folha with the complete picture of Wiccan Wizard and Hulkling Warrior, the plot characters who have a love affair in the plot.

Justice has already condemned the mayor's homophobia act and said that the authorities should "Refrain from confiscating works based on their content, especially those dealing with homotranbaduality"Nor can they "suspend the license of the Biennial", according to the decision of Magistrate Heleno Nunes, who granted a precautionary measure by verifying an "apparent confrontation with the constitutional principles relating to the freedom of expression" .

"There is some controversy in the media about the mayor's office's decision to collect books with homobadual content that would affect a child, a young audience," Crivella said Friday in a video posted on his Twitter account. "What we did is defend the family. This question must be dealt with within the family, it can not be induced, be it at school, in book publishing, anywhere, "he justified.

The Biennale, which ends on September 8th, stated that it was a question of a "plural" festival which gives "the word to all audiences, without distinction, as should be a democracy". "The direction of the festival understands that, in the event that a visitor acquires a work that does not please him, he has the right to demand a change of product, in accordance with the Code of the defense of the consumers", they underlined. inclusive Discussion panels on trans and LGBT literature are planned, the organizers added.

Despite the fact that Congress – with a conservative profile – has never legislated in this regard, a ruling of the Supreme Court of Brazil in 2011 authorized the same-bad civil union. This year, the country criminalized homophobia as racist crime, an important step for badual minorities in one of the countries with the highest number of murders committed in the United States. LGBT community in the world.