A transgender woman who is a member of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government said the storming of her country’s Congress, Presidential Palace and Supreme Court in January sparked outrage among many Brazilians.
Symmy Larrat, who is Brazil’s National Secretary for the Promotion and Defense of the Rights of LGBTQIA+ People, spoke exclusively with the Washington Blade on June 16.
She was in D.C. to participate in an Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights conference. Thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro on Jan.
8 stormed the country’s Congress, Presidential Palace and Supreme Court. Da Silva took power a week before the insurrection.