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https://www.yahoo.com/news/gays-bla...ils-bolsonaro-despite-rhetoric-015504908.html
Even gay and black Brazilians have figured out that a government that serves "turd sandwiches" is worse than a President that occasionally says annoying things
Even gay and black Brazilians have figured out that a government that serves "turd sandwiches" is worse than a President that occasionally says annoying things
According to the Gay Grupo Bahia charity, 387 murders and 58 suicides occurred in Brazil last year due to "homotransphobia" -- an increase of 30 percent as compared with 2016.
But Trabuco says he's far more concerned about being unable to "step out into the street with a cell phone in your hand."
"I'm not just thinking about myself, nor worrying if he'll accept my (sexual) orientation," he added, referring to Bolsonaro.
"I'm worried about security and health."
- 'Right-wing gay' -
Thiago Geraldo -- who is 29, gay and unemployed, having failed to finish university -- says Bolsonaro won him over with pledges to battle Workers' Party "corruption."
On Sunday, Geraldo took part in a massive pro-Bolsonaro demonstration in front of Rio de Janeiro's iconic Copacabana beach.
He wore a sleeveless T-shirt emblazoned with an image of the right-wing leader and took part in chants against "PT communism" and "gender ideology."
Sheepishly, he admits to having previously voted for the PT before a series of corruption scandals engulfed the party's top brass -- former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been jailed and his successor Dilma Rousseff was impeached.
Now a "right-wing gay," Geraldo says he believes that a strong government is needed to create employment and banish the fear of spiralling violence that left 63,800 people dead last year.
"A good citizen who is armed can protect me," he said, balking at suggestions that a Bolsonaro government would spell bad news for the LGBT community.