Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that homophobic slurs are now punishable by prison, in a
Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that homophobic slurs are now punishable by prison, in a decision applauded by rights activists in a country with rampant violence against the LGBTQ+ community.
The 9-1 ruling puts homophobic hate speech on the same legal level as racist hate speech, which was already punishable by prison in Brazil. Justice Edson Fachin, the lead judge on the case, said in his ruling it was a “constitutional imperative” to give LGBTQ+ citizens equal protection under the law.But the earlier decision applied to slurs against the LGBTQ+ community as a whole, not attacks on specific individuals.Hate speech is punishable by prison terms of two to five years in Brazil.
“Victory against LGBT-phobia,” transgender lawmaker Erika Hilton posted on social media, celebrating the ruling.The country of 203 million people is the deadliest in the world for trans people, according to the rights group Transgender Europe, with 1,741 murdered from 2008 to 2022.
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