Tag: Grupo Gay da Bahia
Brazil’s supreme court just made LGBTQ discrimination illegal despite presidential objections
Brazil’s supreme court just ruled that discriminating against LGBTQ people is illegal.
“Homophobic crimes are as alarming as physical violence,” Supreme Court Vice-President Luiz Fux said.
Fux said that there are “epidemic levels of homophobic violence” in Brazil. LGBTQ organization Grupo Gay da Bahia estimates that 141 LGBTQ people have been killed in Brazil in 2019 and 420 LGBTQ people were killed in 2018.
Six of the eleven judges on the Supreme Federal Tribunal voted in favor of the ruling. The other...
