Brazil lacks Legislative decision on LGBT rights, says expert

Brazil lacks Legislative decision on LGBT rights, says expert

Cuba has made significant progress after legalizing same-sex marriage this week.

This is the assessment of the professor of International Relations at PUC-SP and specialist in gender and sexuality, Arthur Maia.

In an interview with CNN Radio on CNN No Plural +, he compared the measure with what we have today in Brazil.

“Cuba had a constitutional advance, which we don’t have here. All of the country’s LGBT policies and advancements were from the Judiciary, not the Legislature, Congress.”

This means, according to him, that “the protection we have today is a decision of the Judiciary, while, in Cuba, there are changes in the Magna Carta.”

In this way, Cuba will now have “protection regardless of the government in force.”

“Homotransphobia in Brazil, for example, was equated with the crime of racism, but the decision was made by the Judiciary and the STF signaled that it can reverse it”, he said.

The expert highlights that “a decision by the Judiciary on the LGBTQ community does not guarantee maintenance of the legislation, since it can be a government policy, not a state policy.”

Cuba’s new family code expands protections for women, children and the elderly and allows LGBTQIA+ couples to marry and adopt children.

For the professor, the number of countries with laws along these lines is “very low”, with Cuba being only the 33rd nation to implement this change.

Source: CNN Brasil