ADDED ON: 03/24/2020
In são paulo, the cultural center is re-opened
A little more than a year after it was created as the Cultural Itaim, it will be re-opened by the mayor of Sao Paulo on Friday, the 29 with the new name…
Brazil
ADDED ON: 03/11/2020
Miami Mayor to Honor Brazil’s Anti-LGBT, Climate-Change-Denying President
Miami politicians, quite reasonably, do not like communists. But Miami Mayor Francis Suarez apparently has no problem with raging right-wingers who hate LGBTQ people, heap praise on dictatorships, defend Hitler admirers, deny…
ADDED ON: 03/07/2020
Brazilians call for boycotts of major companies that support Bolsonaro
Brazilians appalled by Jair Bolsonaro’s bigotry and authoritarianism are calling for boycotts of major companies whose founders or owners support the far-right president. Bolsonaro has often attacked LBGT people, indigenous people, and…
ADDED ON: 02/27/2020
Afro-Feminist Resistance in Brazil’s Carnival
In Southern Brazil, the all women's carnival block Cores de Aide is marching for political resistance and in defense of women, who have been particularly under attack during the far-right presidency of…
ADDED ON: 02/23/2020
Brazilian transgender dancer shatters Carnival parade taboo
When dancer Camila Prins entered Sao Paulo's Carnival parade grounds, a costume of feathers clinging to her sinuous body, she fulfilled a dream of feminine beauty nearly three decades old. Prins says…
ADDED ON: 01/31/2020
Bolsonaro makes former soap star Brazil’s new culture secretary
A former soap opera star, Regina Duarte, has agreed to become Brazil’s culture secretary, replacing the previous secretary who was fired for giving a speech that used language similar to that of…
ADDED ON: 01/23/2020
GLENN GREENWALD ON BRAZIL’S CHARGES AGAINST HIM
On Tuesday, Brazilian prosecutors charged the journalist Glenn Greenwald with “cybercrimes” as part of what the government claims was his role in a “criminal organization.” They allege that Greenwald—who reported on wrongdoing…
ADDED ON: 01/11/2020
Brazil top court rejects attempt to remove LGBT movie from Netflix
Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a lower court’s decision to remove a Netflix comedy that displayed Jesus Christ in a gay relationship. Minister Dias Toffoli stated that “the exercise of freedom…
ADDED ON: 01/10/2020
Brazil issues new rules, lowers age for gender reassignment surgery
Brazil’s independent medical regulator announced new rules for treating transgender patients on Thursday, including lowering the age when trans people can have gender reassignment surgery to 18 from 21 years old. The…
ADDED ON: 01/04/2020
‘The Periphery Has Potency’ Festival Unites Art and Literature in the Peripheries at the Galpão Bela Maré
On December 17, the Galpão Bela Maré arts center held the Periferia Tem Potência (The Periphery Has Potency) festival in partnership with the Favelas Observatory, the Instituto Maria e João Aleixo, and…
ADDED ON: 01/01/2020
Rio police ID suspect in attack on Netflix gay Jesus filmmakers
Police in Rio de Janeiro have identified one of the people responsible for a gasoline bomb attack targeting satirists behind a Christmas program on Netflix that some critics have described as blasphemous.…
ADDED ON: 12/26/2019
Brazilian comedy group hit by Molotov cocktails after film on ‘gay Jesus’
Molotov cocktails were thrown at the headquarters of Brazilian comedy group Porta dos Fundos in Rio de Janeiro on Christmas Eve, weeks after the group launched a film on Netflix depicting Jesus…
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