Tag: homophobia

• Wednesday, January 19th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Mexico to enact zero tolerance on homophobic chanting at football games

  

  Mexican football authorities have announced they wil expel any fan from a stadium who uses foul language against players. But most of all, these fans will be suspended for five years from attending soccer events if they use homophobic remarks such as “puto” as an insult, it was announced Tuesday.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 09:51 UTC

  Brazil's STF may sentence Bolsonaro to pay fine over homophobic statements

  

  A lawsuit filed against Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro for statements made in March 2011 during a TV show at the time he was a deputy Monday reached the country's Federal Superior Court (STF).

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  Bolsonaro back steps after telling a journalist he had “the face of a homosexual”

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that it was wrong for him to tell a journalist a day earlier that he had “the face of a homosexual.”