Unlike the romance fiasco between Claudio (Jose Mayer) he the (Klebber Toledo) in the soap opera "Império", the next 21pm soap opera, "Babilônia", promises to take the characters' homosexuality as it always deserved: with extreme naturalness and combating prejudice.
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So much so that the characters Estela (Nathália Timberg) and Teresa (Fernanda Montenegro), which opens the debate for lesbian marriage in old age, should put an end to any "gay kiss" controversy in the first scene. They will give you a little kiss in the first chapter.
According to the script sent to the actresses, they will talk to their daughter Beatriz (Glória Pires) about work and exchange a kiss.
In another chapter, Tereza will be called to Rafael's (Chay Suede) school – which was raised by the two, shortly after the death of Estela's daughter and her father's rejection – to hear the complaint of a teacher, who asks them to guide the son omitting that he has two mothers. The teacher will say: "Some of the students' parents were uncomfortable. If he said 'mother and aunt', it wouldn't be so difficult to explain."
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But Tereza won't let it go: "Despite my age, I held him, gave him a bottle, held him on nights when he had a fever, read him to sleep, gave him love and education. He calls me mother naturally, this was never imposed (…) You want me to go to my son, the boy I raised, and ask him not to call me mother? the easiest thing? Society often wants to change or hide people like me, but it never did. We're already in 2005. And I'm sure that people like Estela and I are still going to change society."
The soap opera is written by Gilberto Braga, João Ximenes Braga and Ricardo Linhares.
