Ivory Record wrote:That's very nice, but it doesn't address the question, nor is that a year-round situation.
Hmm, what you mean? Yeah, we don't make parades year-round and some people want to make sure they don't even exist (even because it costs public money in certain cases... though the economy profits with the tourism and more). But it isn't Eastern Europe so it won't take place.
We have plenty of violence, but our legislation is one of the most tolerant when it comes to sexuality, and our LGBT community is one of the most lively anywhere (actually, our immigrants are a frequent sight on the scenes of Japan and Portugal about as much as the natives in the places they are present despite being in an unrepresentative minority).
We removed sodomy from the legal code in 1830, it was not prosecuted since 1824 (2 years after we declaring independence from Portugal and 1 year after it being recognized), equalized adoption for all couples in 2010, equalized recognition of cohabitation for same-sex couples saying they are a family entity in May 2011 (after it happened in several states since 2005) while allowing cohabiting couples to have all marriage rights and legalizing same-sex "marriage" (civil union, the legal concept of marriage is inexistent here), equalized same-sex marriage in May 2013 (after it happened in several states since December 2011)...
We ban regulated professionals such as those in the areas of psychiatry and psychology from offering scams like conversion therapy or ever pathologizing homosexuality, we have sexual orientation discrimination protection in a minority of states (plans to create it nationwide are in the hands and pens of Brasília since 1996; they are the most controversial in Brazil rather than SSM as in others because they are either too weak and shunned by LGBTs and those representing them or too strong and interpreted by the Right and by the religious benches as thought police, and everyone starts to scream all those naked men roaming in the streets wanting to shut the mouth of the average person), our government is Constitutionally prohibited from discriminating anyone on any basis (not to say about being secular), homosexuals are accepted in the military since 1969 (long before women).
It is a pretty nice place to live if you are a gay guy. You will just need some self-defense and running skills in a few cases and areas, and put up with the bullying or police not caring about your issues. Besides that, it is great. ._.
Unlike the United States there is nowhere here where prostitution, sex with animals (nothing in Brazilian law ever cited it, be pornography or irl, as I said previously our sodomy law fell in the early-to-mid 19th century), cousins marrying or certain kinds of cartoon porn are illegal. Parent's sibling x sibling's child marriages are also allowed if both have health checks. There is only slut shaming if the "slut" is a member of your family, common sense people would never judge someone was "deservedly rape" as in some other cultures, children born out of the wedlock became a socially accepted thing together with children of divorced parents (who were treated like the earlier) in the mid-to-late 20th century and today no one thinks it is a fuss here, we have a strong law against domestic violence (it is only common in the same rural hinterland areas where they really care about Roman Catholic moral teachings, marry cousins and have sex with animals in high numbers *lols* but we don't cite those as reasons for prejudice against them as people in the USA do against southerners and appalachians) and 7 out of 10 men would do anything to create a situation where there isn't any fight between lovers in a relationship, including verbal ones.
The only dirty parts of our legislation were the ones that said that cuckold husbands would rightfully kill their wives (cultural epidemic in the rural hinterland areas I cite above until this generation) and that marital rape wasn't rape, that survived until 1993, or that if a woman marries her rapist after the alleged rape then it is ignored (part of the law that fell in 1993), but pretty sure the feminists are making their way into make it fall down.
I think we have public decency laws but they aren't taken seriously and apply most for sex. Cis men crossdressing themselves and their kids is the most common thing to do in carnaval.
So, yeah, I believe it is a waaaaaaaaay more sexually liberated place than English-speaking countries.
