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| 2016 Pride Parade in Sao Paulo |
KPFA Women's Magazine talks to journalist Beatriz Miranda about the threat posed to LGBTQI people by Brazil's newly elected president, Jair Bolsonaro. We also discuss the history of LGBTQI rights in Brazil - Miranda calls Brazil the LGBTQI murder capital of the world - and how and why Brazilians turned from the leftist Workers' Party (PT) of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, to the extreme right-wing Bolsonaro.
"Since Bolsonaro's election we did not even go to the streets once because we are literally scared." -Beatriz Miranda
Click here to listen to entire show. 59:50 min
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