What’s going on in Brazil?
[...] For my readers, I would highlight the following trends from Brazil which are starting to appear elsewhere:
-The formal adoption of and advocacy for gay rights by political parties
-The massive influence wielded by gay activists within government itself
-The growing role of the state in the imposition of the gay agenda on a sometimes-recalcitrant population
-The increasing criminalization of being ‘anti-gay’ in public and semi-public spaces
as well as
-The continually-repeated mantra of ‘gay-as-victim’, mythology which works its magic every time!
-The reiteration of white-washed, positive gay narrative, one of the results of which serves to soften the ‘narrow, rigid’ views of disapproving ‘homophobes’
-The normalization and legitimization of homosexuality through granting it a respectable historical heritage
-The reluctance to address the explosive issue of man-boy sex
-The tiny numbers who dare dispute the gay ‘party line’ in public and the high price they pay
-The lack of corporate support for these brave souls, and in fact, the deliberate distancing from and marginalization by certain Christian denominations, churches and organizations. Read more
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