LGBT rights in Bahia

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LGBTQ rights in Bahia
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Status Legal since 1830, [1] age of consent equalised
Gender identity Gender change allowed, [2] official standard for altering legal sex doesn't require surgery since 2018
Military Allowed to serve openly [3]
Discrimination protections Sexual orientation since 1997 Gender identity since 2019
Family rights
Recognition of relationships Same-sex marriage since 2012 [4] [5]
Adoption Legal since 2010 [6]

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights are liberal in Bahia. Homosexuality and same-sex marriage are legal in the state.

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Hate crimes and discrimination law

Bahia was the first Brazilian state to enact an anti-discrimination ordinance in 1997. [7]

LGBT adoption

On March 9, 2010, the Justice of the city of Salvador, Bahia, authorized the adoption of a child by a lesbian couple. [8]

Recognition of same-sex unions

Same-sex marriages have been recognized by notaries in the state of Bahia since November 26, 2012.

Statistics

According to the Grupo Gay da Bahia (Gay Group of Bahia – GGB), the book of homosexual stable union, instituted years ago, states that do not recognize registration of marriages in the registry, the Instituto Nacional de Segurança Social – INSS (National Institute of Social Security) still recognizes this document as a means for, occasionally, sharing inheritance, receiving a pension, etc. There are already 30 legal cases in the State of Bahia between gays and lesbians. This includes a case in which the companion died and the surviving spouse received the pension. [9]

LGBT life

Activism and advocacy

Grupo Gay da Bahia, the oldest gay rights organization in Brazil, was founded in Salvador, Bahia in 1980.

Events

Salvador plays host to an annual Pride parade every September with 800,000 people having attended in 2010. [10]

Homophobia

In 2004, Grupo Gay da Bahia released a list with the names of 159 murdered members of the LGBT community in that year. [11] There is also a list with the names of people that allegedly suffered from human rights abuses in the same year. Some deaths caused directly by homophobia. [12]

Healthcare

The program of prevention of STD/AIDS with transvestite sex workers of Bahia presents excellent results: after research on the local community, a booklet, a folder and a poster were produced, all with realistic language and images peculiar to this subculture. Every week safer sex workshops and direct contact with the transvestites in different prostitution areas are accomplished. In six months, the program recorded 900 interventions, and distributed 14,400 condoms. Programs of STD/AIDS together with transvestite sex workers must use strong elements of the local subculture and count on the trust of the social actor in order to be successful. [13]

Politics

One of the candidates for city council of Salvador, Bahia, the third largest city in Brazil, that won the seat, was Leo Kret, a transvestite club dancer and was the most voted for of the candidates. So when she took office, she defied the dress code norms insisting that her wardrobe would be strictly feminine and insisted on using the women's restroom. [14]

Leo Kret received 12,861 votes in the city, by the Republican Party (PR-BA) in the municipal elections of 2008. [15] In the day of election, she said that she will defend the LGBT rights. [16] She has aspirations to become the president of Brazil one day. [17]

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References

  1. ↑ 16 December 1830 Law (in Portuguese)
  2. ↑ Changing legal gender assignment in Brazil (in Portuguese)
  3. ↑ Gays and Lesbians allowed to serve openly in the Brazilian Military Archived October 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
  4. ↑ "Portal CNJ - CNJ determina que cartórios terão de reconhecer união de pessoas do mesmo sexo". Archived from the original on June 15, 2013. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Brazilian judicial council orders notaries to recognize same-sex marriage". CNN. May 15, 2013.
  6. ↑ Adoption of same-sex unions in Brazil (in Portuguese)
  7. ↑ Sexual orientation laws in Brazil Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine (in English)
  8. ↑ Adoption by same-sex couple in Bahia (in Portuguese) [ permanent dead link ]
  9. ↑ Globo: STJ determina que previdência privada pague pensão a homossexual (LGBT Pension is legal in Brazil by Supreme Court of Justice) (in Portuguese)
  10. ↑ 2010 Salvador Gay pride parade (in Portuguese)
  11. ↑ "Assassinatos de Homossexuais do Brasil – 2004" (Murdered LGBT people in 2004) Grupo Gay da Bahia. .docx icon.svg DOC (in Portuguese)
  12. ↑ VIOLAÇÃO DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS DOS GAYS, LÉSBICAS, TRAVESTI E TRANSEXUAIS NO BRASIL: 2004" (Violation of human rights of gays, lesbians, transvestites and transsexuals in Brazil in 2004. Grupo Gay da Bahia. .docx icon.svg DOC (in Portuguese)
  13. ↑ Transvestite population and situation in Brazil (in English)
  14. ↑ Transvestite politician in Salvador, Bahia (in English)
  15. ↑ Vereadora transexual, Leo Kret, toma posse em Salvador Archived 2012-07-20 at archive.today (in Portuguese)
  16. ↑ "Quero acabar com a homofobia e o preconceito", diz Leo Kret na posse em Salvador Archived 2009-11-11 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
  17. ↑ Terra Magazine: Leo Kret: "Quero ser presidenta do Brasil" (in Portuguese)
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