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The Supreme Court of Brazil has voted to make homophobia and transphobia a crime, amid increasing discrimination against the Brazilian LGBT+ community.
Six of the Supreme Court’s 11 judges have now voted to make it a crime to discriminate against people based on their gender identity or sexuality.
The remaining five judges are yet to vote, but the result will remain unchanged – the new law will come into effect once all judges have voted and will make homophobia and transphobia crimes equivalent to racism.
“This is a day I never thought would come, especially with the president we have now,” Afonso Nogueira, a 36-year-old electrical engineer who plans to marry his boyfriend later this year, told the Los Angeles Times.
“The threats we live with on a daily basis might finally be taken seriously. Now, someone will have to do something about them. This shows that our lives matter,” Nogueira said.
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