There was a surge of same-sex weddings in Brazil ahead of ‘proud homophobe’ Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency
There was a huge rush of same-sex weddings in Brazil last year ahead of “proud homophobe” Jair Bolsonaro becoming president. There was a 62 per cent increase in same-sex weddings in Brazil in 2018 and a fifth of the 9,520 gay weddings took place in December, shortly after Bolsonaro was elected, Reuters reports. Bolsonaro was elected in October 2018 and took office on January 1 2019. His election instilled fear in the country’s LGBT+ community that their rights would be under threat. LGBT+ community feared that their rights would be...