In a tweet on Thursday, Wyllys said: “Preserving a threatened life is also a strategy to fight for better days. In their most notorious public clash, Wyllys spit towards Bolsonaro on the floor of the lower House of Deputies after Bolsonaro dedicated his vote to impeach then-president Dilma Rousseff to a dictatorship-era torturer. In Congress, Wyllys was frequently at odds with Bolsonaro, a congressman for 28 years with a long history of homophobic, racist and sexist comments. Martyrs are not heroes.’ And he’s right: I don’t want to sacrifice myself,” Wyllys said.
Wyllys said that the former Uruguayan president Pepe Mújica had advised him to take the death threats seriously. Jean Wyllys was born on 10 March 1974 in Alagoinhas, Bahia, Brazil. Sometimes I feel like Don Quixote, you know?” he told the Guardian in 2012.
Wyllys first found national fame when he won Brazil’s version of Big Brother, and went on to become one of the country’s most high-profile advocates for gay rights – a role which led to frequent attacks from the religious right. Jean Wyllys, who was due to begin his third political term next month as a congressman representing Rio de Janeiro, said he no longer feels safe in Brazil after the assassination of a political. Wyllys told the Folha de São Paulo newspaper that the decision had been a painful one, but he asked: “Why would I want to live four years of my life in an armoured car with bodyguards? Four years of my life when I can’t just go where I want to go?” Bolsonaro’s son Carlos – also a Rio city councilman – greeted the news with a tweet saying: “Go with God and be happy.” Brazilian Congressman Jean Wyllys who became the first openly LGBTQ person to serve in the National Congress of Brazil in 2011 announced he has left the country and will not return because of increasing death threats against him. He told FRANCE 24 the country’s new far-right. In the interview, Wyllys said his decision to leave wasn’t because of Bolsonaro’s rise, but rather the climate of heated rhetoric and intensifying violence toward members of the LGBT community in the wake of last year’s heated election campaign.īolsonaro made no explicit comment on Wyllys’s announcement, but soon after posted a thumbs-up emoji on his twitter feed. Jean Wyllys, one of Brazil’s first openly gay federal lawmakers, is living in exile after renouncing his congressional seat over death threats. His departure is likely to add to fears among Brazil’s LGBT community that homophobia is set to rise even further under the government of president Jair Bolsonaro, who has won notoriety for his overt homophobia.
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Wyllys, who was re-elected in October and had been set to begin a third term in February, was a close friend of Marielle Franco, the gay Rio councilwoman who was shot and killed along with her driver in March.
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