User:Ariel.Gman/LGBT history in Brazil

Prior to 1800[edit]

 * 1533: Portuguese Penal Code is instituted by colonial administration in Brazil. It illegalizes sodomy or any sort of sexual intercourse between people of the same sex; it was influenced by the English Buggery Act 1533.

- Correct it state in the past tense, "The Portuguese Penal Code was instituted by colonial administration in Brazil. It legalized sodomy or any sort of sexual intercourse between people of the same sex; it was influenced by the English Buggery Act 1533.


 * 1591: Felipa de Souza is convicted of having relations with other women and tortured.

* was convicted

19th century

 * 1830: Dom Pedro I signed into law the Imperial Penal Code. It eliminates all references to sodomy.

Change eliminates to eliminated, as this is past tense.

20th century
'''In the 1960s, the Brazilian government viewed homosexuality as a fallacy that disrupted the true male essence of masculinity and bypassed an actual militant's image. The Maoist Communist Party of Brazil (cite) believed that homosexuality was intertwined with that communist ideology and that with the overthrowing of communism, homosexuality would too fall with it.'''
 * 1960: "According to this vision, homosexuality was a product of bourgeois decadence and would disappear when capitalism was overthrown and a communist society established."
 * 1979: O Lampião, a gay magazine, with contributions by many famous authors, like João Silvério Trevisan, Aguinaldo Silva and Luiz Mott, is launched. It survived for three years.

- Incorrect dating, it was released 1978


 * 1979 Grupo Lésbico-Feminista is formed in São Paulo by Míriam Martinho, Rosely Roth and others. It remains active for 3 years.

* remained active

1970: -That year...Latin American gay fiction with San Francisco's Gay Sunshine Press, founded Lampiao da Esquina, an alternative newspaper that sought to cover topics of interests to gays and lesbians in particular as well as other "minorities.”

I believe the person who created or edited the article miscounted the years. They marked it as 1979, when the source I found stated it as the same year being 1978.

1980:

-        “...the First Meeting of Brazilian Homosexuals in São Paulo in 1980.”

“Two years later, most of the women in it split to form the country's first independent lesbian organization, the Autonomous Lesbian Feminist Group (GALF).”

-        This is another error in date within the wiki article. States that two years later from 1978 would be 1980, but in the wiki article it is posted as 1981.

“By 1981, the movement in that city had fractured into eight to ten tiny groups, some of which formed an umbrella collective called the Autonomous Homosexual Movement (MHA).”

1970-1980:

-        Pornochanchadas were films that took off in the 70s and 80s, these were erotic-comedies of homosexuals. The films depicted the LGBT characters as a stereotype, affiliating them with a lower status and giving them scripts that were lifeless and displayed a fake flamboyant nature.

1980–1989

 * 1980: Grupo Gay da Bahia, is the oldest gay rights organization in Brazil, was founded in Salvador, Bahia, together with SOMOS, another organization in São Paulo, State of São Paulo.
 * 1981: Grupo Ação Lésbica-Feminista (GALF) was formed in São Paulo with former members of Grupo Lésbico-Feminista and began publishing a feminist journal "ChanacomChana". The banning of distribution of this journal in 1983 at the Ferro Bar and the protest that ensued was known as the Brazilian Stonewall. It remained active until 1989.
 * 1985: the Federal Council of Medicine of Brazil removes homosexuality from further mention as "deviant".
 * 1989: The constitutions of Mato Grosso and Sergipe states were signed into law. They explicitly forbid discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation.

* change tense to past* Bolded terms

1990–1999:


 * 1995: Congresswoman Marta Suplicy proposes Bill project No. 1151 concerning civil unions. The bill is pending approval in the House since 1995.

Change "The bill is pending approval in the House since 1995" to The bill has been pending approval in the House since 1995. The sentence now flows better and changes tenses.

1990:

-        “Fresa y Chocolate was exhibited in Brazil in 1994.”

This film holds a great contribution to the LGBT community within Brazil. Directed by Arnaldo Jabor, it depicts a gay protagonist-Diego, which at the time was not highly controversial but some of the public still held negative connotations towards the LGBT community. The film contains a deeper more symbolic meaning of acceptance and the understanding of democratic views within Cuba and Brazil. Journalist reviews perceived David and Diego’s affection towards one another as means of a friendship, this is understandable, but it goes against what the director may have wanted the audience to see or comprehend. That two men can love each other more than that of friends.