Though Brazil has legalized same-sex marriages, violence in the country towards LGBT people is common.
Published 12:43 PM EDT Jun 14, 2019
Eight of Brazil's 11 Supreme Federal Court justices ruled on Thursday to include homophobia and transphobia within the country's laws prohibiting racism — a clause that would legally protect the country's LGBT community, which has among the highest rates of violent LGBT deaths in the world.
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