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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com August 04, 2011 04:45:00 PM ET
Brazilian City Seeks Heterosexual Pride Day
São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America and site of a
huge gay pride celebration, wants to have a straight pride day, which
conservative City Council member Carlos Apolinário (pictured) says will
counter the “excesses and privileges” of LGBT Brazilians.
By Trudy Ring
São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America and site of a
huge gay pride celebration, wants to have a straight pride day.
The City Council approved legislation Tuesday designating the third Sunday
in December as Heterosexual Pride Day; it requires Mayor Gilberto Kassab’s
signature to become law, and he has not said whether he will sign it.
Carlos Apolinário (pictured), the conservative council member who authored
the measure, says he does not want a parade to mark the day, but felt “
compelled to make a symbolic move to shore up Brazil’s eroding ‘morals,’
” reports The Christian Science Monitor.
“The creation of Heterosexual Day does not symbolize a struggle against
gays but against what I believe are excesses and privileges,” he said,
according to the Monitor.
He pointed out that the gay pride parade is held on one of the city’s main
streets, Paulista Avenue, while the March for Jesus, organized by
evangelical groups, is not allowed there, the Associated Press notes.
The Brazilian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Association issued a
statement denouncing the legislation. “The celebration of heterosexual
pride is inappropriate because it belittles the just cause of the LGBT
community,” the statement said. “Unlike homosexuals, heterosexuals are not
discriminated against simply for being heterosexuals.”
Gay groups also said the measure could encourage violence against LGBT
people. Gay Brazilians are being murdered at a rate that has doubled in the
past five years, according to the Gay Group of Bahia. Other critics said the
council should not be establishing a Heterosexual Pride Day but addressing
more pressing issues, including crime, pollution, and infrastructure. S&
atilde;o Paulo is also behind schedule in preparations to host soccer’s
World Cup in 2014 and may lose the event to another locale. | m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 2 异性恋不是天天都是骄傲日吗，你们看liangzhi每天都多骄傲啊 | D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 3 It is ridiculous.
I do not see any point of having a so-called "pride" day for those
heterosexuals in a country where all heterosexual males are already most
proud of their so-called super-macho culture. It is literally a joke. Brazil
men are said to be among the sexiest in the world but statistics show that
they are also very male chauvinistic in that they are very anti-abortion and
anti-female rights---many of Brazilians women are literally forbidden from
abortion both due to the dominant Catholicism and their super-macho male
partners. | X*******H
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