Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right politician who will be the country’s next president, has called himself a «proud homophobe».
On the night of the Brazilian election, Bianca Gama cried as it became clear that the country’s next president would be Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right politician whose career has been marked by homophobia.
As the official result was announced, Gama’s girlfriend Priscilla Cicconi turned to her and said: «You were right. We should get married – before he takes office. Let’s do it».
Gama and Cicconi were not the only ones to make such a decision: faced with a homophobic president-elect with close alliances to evangelical and Catholic churches, LGBTQ people in Brazil are rushing to claim hard-earned rights such as marriage equality and name and gender changes.
