Brazilian Olympic diver Ian Matos has died aged just 32 from a non-Covid lung infection. Matos came out as gay in 2014, crediting British diver Tom Daley with giving him the courage to be more open about his sexuality. Daley had come out the previous year. He had spent the last two months of his […]
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been given a week long ban from YouTube and Facebook have taken down one of his videos after he made false claims suggesting that Covid-19 vaccines cause people to develop HIV and AIDS. In the now deleted video which originally aired on Thursday 21st October, Bolsonaro chastised British people who […]
Brazilian politician Eduardo Leite has shared that he is gay. The 36-year-old Governor of the southern state Rio Grande do Sul is a challenger to current Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Leite shared the information about his sexuality during an interview with the country’s top broadcaster. “I’m gay – and I’m a governor who is gay […]
Brazil’s Supreme Court has overturned a the country’s ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood. The ban had been imposed in the 1980’s at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. The move comes as more countries review the decades old restrictions on men who have sex with other men from donating blood. Across the […]
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that marriage equality should be recognised without discrimination. The court holds jurisdiction over all countries who are signatories to the American Convention of Human Rights, and will see same-sex marriage become legal in a number of Latin and North American nations. The ruling is a result of […]
Once again, I am testing my mental health by reading the comment sections about the addition of the brown and black stripes to the pride flag in Philadelphia. But then, being black and gay has been the mental health test of my life. Coming from Brazil – ranked the world’s deadliest place for LGBT people […]
A mother in Brazil has been arrested for the murder of her 17-year-old son late last year. Reports from the South American nation state that Tatiana Lozano Pereira coaxed her son Itaberli Lozano into a trap, hiring two young men to brutally attack the 17-year-old. Sources say the 18 & 19-year-old’s beat Itaberli as per his […]
Gabriel Fontana is a climbing up the charts in Sweden and getting some world wide attention for his tune Electric. Gabriel is originally from Brazil but now lives in Sweden. Last year he appeared on Swedish Idol (they still have Idol in Sweden?). The judges didn’t pick Gabriel at the audition phase, but he went on […]
Actress Ellen Page is shown confronting a boastful homophobic policeman in a trailer for a new travel series. ‘Gaycation’ is due to air on Vice publications new TV channel, Viceland. Page travels the world with her gay best friend Daniel, as they explore LGBT communities and culture across the globe. In the trailer, the […]
Rio de Janeiro student Maria Muniz was fined by her school Colégio Pedro II for wearing a skirt. Because Muniz is transgender, the school did not recognise her as female, fined her and told her to only wear trousers in future. Nine days after the incident, Muniz’ classmates demonstrated their support for her by all […]
