This week, websites reported that three men were sentenced to death in Iran. Reason: sodomy. According to the country's laws, homosexuality is considered a crime and the penalty is life itself. Of course, sentences like these are rare, not because there are no homosexuals in Iran as the president says or because the government does not persecute people who have sexual and emotional relationships with others of the same sex. What happens is that other devices are used to mask the penalty due to sexual orientation, after all, global entities that defend Human Rights are quite harsh in their criticism in these cases. It then becomes easier and more practical to convict these people of rape or another crime that carries the same penalty as "sodomy".
In Brazil it was no different. At the beginning of the 20th century, vagrancy was considered a crime and many black people, homosexuals and low-income people were arrested and sentenced under this old article of the Brazilian Penal Code. After all, unlike Iran and other countries, homosexuality was never a crime in Brazil, except, of course, during the time of the Inquisition.
We are often shocked by this news coming from the East, especially from these countries that base their laws on Islamic beliefs. Imagining that someone is sentenced to death because of their sexual orientation is actually quite strange and shocking to us. However, if we think about it, what is the difference in Brazil???
In fact, as I said before, we do not have any law that punishes homosexuality. On the contrary, recently, the Federal Supreme Court extended the same rights to homosexual couples that are given to heterosexuals. But it is not yet civil marriage, but we are certainly heading this way... However, Brazilian culture is responsible for condemning homosexuals, including condemning them to death, just like in Iran. I have no doubt that more homosexuals die in Brazil, because of homophobia than in Iran because of the law that condemns sodomy.
I agree that, in the case of Brazil, it is not the State that applies such penalties, but the population itself that is based on different concepts and prejudices to condemn such practice. Whether for religious reasons, fascist ideologies or pure prejudice and ignorance, we homosexuals end up suffering from the verbal and physical attacks that are given to us. And often, the State that should defend us remains in a position of omission and there are countless cases of police officers who do nothing when they receive a report of violence, or judges who judge based on religious concepts, leaving aside the issue of the State's secularism. and the right to citizenship dear to all Brazilians.
Brazil is far from being a country that cares about the citizenship of all its children. Homosexual people are targets of aggression from childhood and adolescence and continue throughout adulthood. And physical death is not the only consequence that we end up suffering, on the contrary, the death of our citizenship is very frequent and I could cite countless cases that prove this.
If Iran is cruel to its homosexual citizens, Brazil is not far behind…
The message is given...
Kiss, kiss, kiss… I went…
