This week, Lesbian Pride Day was celebrated. The date was chosen in honor of the first major lesbian demonstration in Brazil, which took place in São Paulo in 1983, when activists occupied a bar that was a meeting point for the community.
To this day, stereotypes and prejudice are still strong, even with almost three million Brazilians declaring themselves lesbian, gay, or bisexual, according to the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics).
O CNN Specialist in human rights and diversity, Renan Quinalha, spoke on the subject. “Lesbian women suffer a double penalty in a patriarchal society like ours,” he said.
“On the one hand, because they are women and are targets of misogyny, machismo and, on the other hand, because they are lesbians. That is, having a sexual orientation that is stigmatized, that is socially discriminated.”
Source: CNN Brasil
