World Wide Wave

12 Aug 2014

Brazil: World Cup Special

North and South America

World Wide Wave succumbs to World Cup Fever and heads over to Brazil where soccer reaches far beyond the confines of the stadium.

“In Brazil, people take the celebrations and commiserations outside of the (soccer) stadium. It is a religion. It is known that in certain championships, people die of heart attacks.”

Given how soccer permeates the culture, its no surprise to hear:

“There’s no gay out and open (soccer players). Because homophobia and hetero-normativity is still alive and very well. Although there are laws that are protecting, there are spaces that really constrain people.”

We spoke to Mr Gay Brazil, Evandro Maia, who said:

“Now is the best time to be gay in Brazil because we were fighting for our rights and now the government signed the law to let us marry and have kids and be ourselves.”

“The government really wants to be the next country to host Mr Gay World so we can open minds.”

“I’m the only UFC fighter who is openly gay in my country. I know a lot of other fighters who are gay but are afraid to come out of the closet.”

Find out more on W3JOY’s Brazil homepage.

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