Current Events > Rio mayor orders raid over gay characters in comic book

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/world/americas/rio-gay-kiss-comic.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

The team of law-enforcement agents deployed by the mayor to defend the family descended on the international event and scoured the grounds for their target: copies of a comic book featuring two young men kissing.

Books like this need to be packaged in black plastic and sealed, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella, said in a video posted on Twitter. The agents, he said, were ordered to seize all copies of the comic book from the citys International Book Fair because it had sexual content for minors.

As it turned out, the police came up empty on Thursday in their two-hour search for kissing comic characters, though they did find lots of books, Col. Wolney Dias, who headed the raid, told the newspaper Folha de So Paulo.

The raid also kicked up lots of backlash for the mayor from festival organizers, publishing houses, comedians and, finally, the Brazilian courts. On Friday, a judge barred Mr. Crivella from further seizure efforts or any attempt to withdraw the festivals permit, a ruling that was partly overturned on Saturday.

The comic book in question, published in 2010 under the title Avengers: The Childrens Crusade, shows the superheroes Hulkling and Wiccan, who are boyfriends, kissing. The book, which had sold out by the time the agents arrived, tells the story of Wiccans efforts to control his reality-altering powers.

Festival organizers tried a bit of reality altering themselves on Friday when they took the mayor to court, winning an injunction against efforts to bar the book. The judge cited the organizers constitutional right to free expression, but his ruling was partly reversed on Saturday when a second judge said that gay and lesbian content for children should not be publicly displayed.

The brushback was more colorful outside court. The comedian Felipe Neto, one of Brazils most popular YouTube stars, said he would distribute thousands of books with gay and lesbian characters at the festival. The books, he said, would come with a red label saying they were inappropriate for backward, retrograde and prejudiced people.

Then, on Saturday, the publishing house Faro set up a stand at the festival under the banner Books That Are Forbidden by Crivella and featuring a host of volumes on issues involving gay and lesbian people. The stand became a selfie magnet, the newspaper O Globo said.

Mr. Crivellas order also served to remind local newspapers and TV stations of other things the mayor could be doing, like fighting poverty. The local unemployment rate hit 15.3 percent in the first trimester of this year.

Crivella, This Is Whats Inappropriate, read the headline in the newspaper Extra, atop a photo of a homeless woman and her children sitting on cardboard on a sidewalk.

The mayor, who is also an evangelical preacher, was unbowed. In a video posted on Friday, Mr. Crivella said he was trying to protect families.

This cant be induced, be it in schools, in a book, or wherever, the mayor said, apparently referring to gay and lesbian issues. We will always continue to defend the family.

But the mayor forgets there are quite old Supreme Court decisions that say same-sex families also deserve protection, said Rodrigo Azambuja of Rios public defenders office, which had joined with festival organizers in their court appeal.

Under Brazilian law, he said, all families are equal.

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This is why we need straight pride. Fuck this year. The world is becoming Russia.
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"Defend the family" yeah because two dudes kissing totally harms families
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Hmmm...
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eston posted...

"Defend the family" yeah because two dudes kissing totally harms families

Rhetoric like this was commonplace among US politicians like, as recently as 6-7 years ago, and it's wild how quickly we've forgotten how disastrously wrong all those people were.
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Let Lewis Black explain to you the dangers of homosexuality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ovRehGkTU" data-time="

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This doesn't seem like a good use of the police
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Two people of the same sex falling in love. Truly the deplorable moral decay that will rip apart families.

Fuck everyone who thinks like this mayor.
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This, from the country that has strippers in their children's television?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQgZImhB-nM" data-time="
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This is what the UN wants to do too, but only for their agendas

If I'm reading this correctly, we shouldn't be too outraged. The mayor's intent is to ensure the material is packaged correctly. The stores are still allowed to sale the item if they comply with this rule.
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Russia is leaking.
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Solar_Crimson posted...

Russia is leaking.

Buddy, this is Brazil. Countries have problems that aren't Putin's doing.
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sauceje posted...

Let Lewis Black explain to you the dangers of homosexuality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ovRehGkTU" data-time="

well I'm convinced

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Aside from everything else (like the fact that they probably dont mind a man and woman kissing each other in these books), how is two people kissing even sexual content?
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AngryRedHatter posted...

If I'm reading this correctly, we shouldn't be too outraged. The mayor's intent is to ensure the material is packaged correctly. The stores are still allowed to sale the item if they comply with this rule.

We wouldn't package books containing straight people kissing in obscuring labels in the name of 'protecting families' from human sexuality. The only reason this position makes any sense to you is because you partially agree with this mayor and his assertion that homosexuality harms families.

The panels in question:


And the following kiss superimposed over an article discussing this issue for meme purposes,


And of course this is immediately interrupted by super hero drama, but it's comic book. What do we expect.
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hollow_shrine posted...

We wouldn't package books containing straight people kissing in obscuring labels in the name of 'protecting families' from human sexuality. The only reason this position makes any sense to you is because you partially agree with this mayor and his assertion that homosexuality harms families.

Th3HonestTruth posted...

You can go package yourself correctly

Guys, look at the name. You're responding to a literal gimmick account.
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