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News: Gays are tew much in Brazil,makes Straight Pride Day!
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Gays are tew much in Brazil,makes Straight Pride Day!
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A Brazilian Straight Pride Day?
A city councilman in São Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city, wants a "Hetero Pride Day." Mac Margolis reports on the reasons behind the initiative—and the strong response to the proposal.
Aug 5, 2011 3:08 PM EDT
In Brazil, where tolerance is a trademark, there’s a date set aside for just about every interest group. The Day of the Indian celebrates pre-colonial Brazilians. Professors, merchants, and journalists each have their special day, while Brazilians of color have two. The Supreme Court even recently greenlighted marching for the right to smoke marijuana. Now, if the São Paulo City Council has its way, heterosexuals will have a moment all their own.
Municipal legislators in Latin America’s biggest metropolis have just approved a measure to create Hetero Pride Day: a slot on the calendar just for people who are straight. Mayor Gilberto Kassab still has to sign the bill, and the smart money says he won’t, but the lawmakers’ initiative has already triggered a backlash from the streets to cyberspace.
Carlos Apolinário, the city councilman who sponsored the measure, denies the bill is antigay. Rather, he claims, it's just payback for the “special privileges” that homosexuals enjoy and that the rest of the planet does not. The fact that Hetero Pride Day was set for just before Christmas was not lost on Apolinário’s constituency, led by militant, right-wing evangelical Protestants, to whom the latest liberties sanctioned by the Brazilian courts—which recently sanctioned same-sex unions and named surviving spouses as lawful heirs when a partner dies—are an un-Christian assault on country, creed, and family.
After all, he says, homosexuals and sympathizers rally every year on Avenida Paulista, one of São Paulo’s prime patches of real estate, where more than a million gay, lesbian, and transgender Brazilians and their supporters paraded on June 26. What’s more, the Brazilian Supreme Court recently signed off on homosexual unions, a decision that was promptly celebrated in Rio by a mass marriage of 43 same-sex couples. “My impression,” Apolinário blogged recently, “is that the most important thing for the press, for the justice system and for Congress, is the question of gay rights.”
The response from the Brazilian street was massive and swift.
The response from the Brazilian street was massive and swift. Some 237 civic groups published an open letter to the mayor, urging him to kill the bill. And barely a day after the vote, hackers blacked out Apolinário’s official website, which is flush with posts like “Gay Dictatorship” and “I’m Not a Homophobe,” and replaced it with their own angry scrawl: “One homosexual is killed every 36 hours,” the hacktivists thundered. “Councilor Carlos Apolinário insists on proposing laws that encourage hate and discrimination.”
People attend the annual Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 26, 2011.
This year's Sao Paulo gay-pride parade, on June 26, Andre Penner / AP Photo
“The attack [on the website] was a demonstration of intolerance,” Apolinário blogged back. “It shows I am right in combating the excesses and privileges of the gay community.” Apolinário is especially worked up that City Hall allows the gay-pride parade through São Paulo’s financial district, and even distributed condoms and sex gel to the marchers. After all, he complained, city authorities denied permits for an evangelical Christian “March for Jesus” along the same thoroughfare. “They said no to Jesus on [Avenida] Paulista but allow homosexuals!” he recently groused.
True, many Brazilians—and not a few of his fellow city councilors—blanch at Apolinário's fevered views. His measure might not have passed at all without a procedural sleight of hand; it was part of a package deal allowing each lawmaker to pen a pet bill in exchange for a collective commitment to vote through legislation that had long been stalled in the council chambers.
And yet his broadsides against gay rights strike a satisfying chord in a country where straitlaced Roman Catholics and aggressive Protestant evangelicals often see themselves as a put-upon majority.
But in a country where murders of homosexuals have spiked 113 percent in the last five years, their case is getting harder to make.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-day-bill.html
I can't. So tacky. 
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I can't wait for the gay riots in Brazil, they are going to sweep the country clean like it was the last dust bunnie.
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There are so many gays in Brazil
Straights just want to feel accepte 
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Carlos Apolinário, the city councilman who sponsored the measure, denies the bill is antigay. Rather, he claims, it's just payback for the “special privileges” that homosexuals enjoy and that the rest of the planet does not.
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it's just payback for the “special privileges” that homosexuals enjoy and that the rest of the planet does not.
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payback for the “special privileges” that homosexuals enjoy and that the rest of the planet
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for the “special privileges” that homosexuals enjoy
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I wasn't aware that harassment, bullying, belittlement, having less rights than others and being persecuted by the law are considered priviliges.
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EVERY DAY is "Straight pride day". lol ridiculous
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What are these privileges they speak of? Because I would love to begin taking advantage of them.
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"special privileges” that homosexuals enjoy and that the rest of the planet does not
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 Maybe I was busy when they were handing out these special privileges because I haven't got mine yet.
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Yet another stupid and twisted idea which religion is involved in. Humanity's biggest cancer.
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Maybe I was busy when they were handing out these special privileges because I haven't got mine yet. |
IKR! 
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We have one of the the biggest homosexual population in the worls, the biggest Gay Pride Parede in the world... but Brazil still a very homophobic country. It's on the people's blood.
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This is like making White History Month 
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What are these privileges they speak of? Because I would love to begin taking advantage of them.
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okay!?! where can i sign up for these privileges asap? 
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Yet another stupid and twisted idea which religion is involved in. Humanity's biggest cancer.
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preach!
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This is like making White History Month |
girl, yes!
i actually had this dude tell me how mad he is that we have black history month and not a white history month. i was like "um....we have a white history LIFE"
i can't deal with such ignorance. people like this completely bypass the reasons for having gay pride and black history month.
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They don't deserve ANYTHING!
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If they get a Hetro Day, I want White History Month.
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I don't know about tht BS but Brazil has such a hot gays  I need to move on
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We have one of the the biggest homosexual population in the worls, the biggest Gay Pride Parede in the world... but Brazil still a very homophobic country. It's on the people's blood. |
IKR? Talk about lamps...
(yes, I'm from Brazil too)
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Sure, why not? They have every right to organize it if they want to.
Better than the dumbasses sitting around going "WHY CAN'T WE HAVE STRAIGHT PRIDE DAY." I always just remind them they could, they just don't actually care enough to organize it.
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I've always wanted a Brazilian man.
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