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I had never thought anything about sexuality,

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I never questioned that in my life

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I have never studied with a transvestite.

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All the records I have from childhood

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it was the transvestite on the
street, in prostitution.

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I began to understand that heterosexuality

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was not the only option in the world

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and I began to understand that the error

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it was not my existence.

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Daily you have to take doses

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of encouragement to stay alive,

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and not just living, breathing.

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Live and producing life.

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Every 48 hours, a transgender person

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or transvestite is murdered in the country.

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The data is on the murder map

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of the trans population in Brazil, in 2017,

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of the National Association of
Transvestites and Transsexuals.

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How would you tie it, Rafa?

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This here

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I was born in Manaus, in the Amazon,

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and I am the daughter of a
missionary couple of pastors

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of the Assembly of God.

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I always had a feeling that I had a

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greater inclination to what would be feminine

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of what was proposed to me as masculine.

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Now there\'s Ana Giza, Terra, Onica, Areta.

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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

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eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
It\'s over.

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It\'s over, honey.

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I actually didn\'t even want to be gay,

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nor be a transvestite,
because, inside my head,

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none of these moral conducts would be,

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I don\'t know, healthy for my body,

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or healthy for me.

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When I reached adolescence,

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the repression of non-acceptance
was much greater

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and then I take it to my parents.

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Their first reaction was an expulsion,

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to say: \"Since that choice is yours,

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I want you to leave the house.\"

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I only had reference really that I had

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the freedom to be able to live this story

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when I left the Amazonas State

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and I ended up coming to the Southeast.

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My parents already dreamed
of having a daughter,

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and her name was Leticia.

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They always said that one
day Letícia would come.

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When I transitioned,

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I quickly became Manauara.

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\"Who is she?\", \"She is from
Manaus, Manauara\", and so on.

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But, on the record, I didn\'t
want to put Manauara Clandestine,

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because I knew I had a name,

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because my grandmother is
Maria, my mother is Maria,

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my aunts are Maria... I said:
\"No, my name is Maria Letícia\".

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My father found out.
It was not an easy process,

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my father was very exalted.

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He had a constant surveillance
of everything I did.

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So, at school, in the technical
course I was doing at the time

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I was a free person, who lived my experiences,

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I was a totally open, smiling person.

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And at home, I was totally submissive.

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I listened to what my father
had to say, I respected,

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I lowered my head and complied.

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In this fulfillment of my father\'s demands,

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I ended up going to a psychologist,

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who tried to do a \"gay healing\" process.

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And it was kind of a strange process,

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consultations with a psychologist
who was also a pastor

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and that had this very clear attempt

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of trying to make me understand,
through metaphors,

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that the process of facing

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my homosexual impulse

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it was very painful,

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but it was something i should do

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for a divine purpose.

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That\'s when I started to think:

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\"I have to leave home to live,

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to experience my life, to live,

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to constitute myself as a human being\",

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and the opportunity arose to
come to Rio de Janeiro.

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My search is focused

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with both racial discrimination and LGBT.

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LGBT rights have been completely forgotten

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of the political system,

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so, most of the LGBT rights

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were conquered by the judiciary.

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Major achievements of LGBT rights

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that happened in Brazil, until today, were,

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in general, a gradual conquest and

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last sphere of rights promotion was related

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to the criminalization of LGBT-phobia,

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as recognition of discrimination

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against the LGBT population.

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Criminalization is important, but it is not enough.

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We punish racism by laws since \'89,

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and that\'s not why we have less racism.

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If you are a black transvestite,

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every day you will go through a

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test situation, of survival.

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And now if you are in a
state of vulnerability

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and looking for a job,

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It\'s a much more complicated situation,

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in a city that creates

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a place, a structure in
which it imposes itself

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as if you don\'t belong to that space,

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like you don\'t deserve to
be there, right?

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And getting here, the
process was very difficult

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because I started to
understand that there were

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other violences that, until then,
I had not experienced.

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I had never been passed over for
a job for being a lesbian.

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I had a resume, a good resume,

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competitive for the administrative area,

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I had a lot of experience,
despite being new.

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People didn\'t want me in direct service,

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for passing an aggressive image.

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That\'s when I started working
as a gas station attendant.

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So the absence of opportunity

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in the formal market made me understand

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that I would need my own space.

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This led me to create my publishing house

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of books and audiovisual producer,

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which is what I have and
sustains me financially today.

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I work with topics that I find very pertinent

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for today\'s society.

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I work with animal ethics,
environmental, feminism,

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gender studies

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and it\'s pretty cool

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to be able to do this and see
this in a book like this.

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It\'s pretty cool.

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The acronym itself has changed over time,

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the acronym LGBTI+,

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precisely to encompass these different groups

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that have been made invisible
in the LGBT community itself.

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With regard to transpeople, for example,

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there\'s a whole discussion
about gender identity,

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on access to health care.

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It is the most abused group,

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more discriminated against in society.

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We are working, once again,

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at the House of Creators,

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and this time the project is called
\"Brazil, world champion country

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of transvestites\".

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And it will be a very fine mockery.

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We will produce an editorial

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with a team of transvestites, on the 18th,

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and I really wanted you on this team.

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I actually came with the dream
of studying Fashion.

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I was working as a waitress for a while

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and then I received an invitation
from a stylist, at the time,

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and at some point I said:
\"Man, I\'m going to study

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fashion production, because
that\'s what I need\".

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It will be transvestites and black cis women.

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And to close, there will be the last block,

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which will be \"Brasileirinhxs\".

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It\'s going to be like a team of trans people.

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We\'ll, like, rescue the green and yellow

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and will mock patriotism.

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Oh, I want to see, dear!

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I think the moment that I could have the opportunity

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of really living my transition,

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or, in fact, let the transition live me,

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that\'s when I had a ground of trust.

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It was after I came here,
I had been here for a while,

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and I ended up bonding with some people

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that put me in the safest place.

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No, friend.
Stay there.

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I met Vicenta also in this process

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and I ended up working as a model for her.

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And it was really crazy, because we met

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and formed a family.

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A lot more trans people were joining

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who were also looking
for the same thing as me,

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to have a safe space

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to be who they are.

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Do you lock here?

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The delegate Euripedes da Silva Stuque

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of the 3rd Police District of Ribeirao

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asked the court for the temporary
arrest of the three police officers

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suspects in the death
of Luana Barbosa dos Reis

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of 34 years.

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I had a snap in a moment of life,

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with the death of Luana Barbosa.

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She was a lesbian murdered in Ribeirao Preto,

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countryside of Sao Paulo,
by police officers.

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And Luana\'s death impacted me a lot,

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simply made this questioning,

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\"Who are the other Luanas who are dying

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victims of lesbophobia?\".

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So the research project

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\"Lesbocides: The Stories Nobody Tells\"

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is the result of this attempt
to understand these deaths,

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those deaths that were not reported

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and that the lesbian movement
was not fully aware.

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And then we publish the dossier,

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the dossier takes a place

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that we did not even imagine,
in fact, at the beginning,

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but it is this place to open a space,

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a path to lesbian research,

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a scientific backing,

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because from the moment you prove

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that people die for being lesbians,

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it becomes, politically, academically

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and daily, a fact,

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a fact that can no longer be denied.

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Understanding lesbian deaths

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is to have contact with very violent content.

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These are the cases that
I have already registered

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These are cases that are still under investigation,

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but...

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A constant search, right?
Verification

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of the truth of the facts,

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of the veracity of death.

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Today I follow 379 cases.

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It\'s...

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There are many cases to follow.

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It\'s hard to find a lesbian

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that has not suffered

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a psychological violence

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and/or physical in their entire life.

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I\'d say it\'s impossible.

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It is very common in non-feminized lesbians

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to be attacked \"like a man\",

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because her appearance is \"manly\".

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Lesbians fall into this condition

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of hate crimes for various reasons.

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The most present,

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the easiest to identify

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are the methodologies of crimes,

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that is, the way in which crimes are committed

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and the context in which it is committed.

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And then it works as a warning

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for those who didn\'t die

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and like an outpouring of that hate

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against a certain element of a population,

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but which represents a hatred
against that whole category.

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We find quarters,

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rapes, gang rapes,

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every rape against lesbians, we consider

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a corrective rape,

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torture.

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What\'s in the court case,

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we only have one version.

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we only have one version.

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The version of who stayed alive.

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The version of those who said
it wasn\'t homophobia,

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the speaker\'s version:
\"Oh, I killed because she stole

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my bag of bread\".

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Or: \"I killed her because
she moved my antenna.\"

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I don\'t care how many deaths there were.

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For me, it is interesting to understand why he killed,

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how he killed,

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what was this cycle of violence.

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These cases that are extremely violent,

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it\'s not just the death of a person,

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but it is also trying to impose on that person

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a process of dehumanization.

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-Hey guys.
-Hey.

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The one who greets only transvestites!

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Assemble the machines, sweetheart.

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We are going to continue our exercises today, right?

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Today the idea is for you to go there,

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take the clothes,

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cut, make something from beginning to end,

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without my intervention.

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-But with mine!
-Yes

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Yeah, some people will intervene,

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now try to create something

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that goes beyond what you have already learned.

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This is another class of our course

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of art, culture and sewing.

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A course that was conceived
through the TRANSmoras studio.

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So I\'m here solving a piece

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that one of our students did, Ianca.

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It was incredible, which is
precisely the project itself,

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which is to reuse materials that
would otherwise be discarded, right?

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And that become catwalk pieces

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and pieces that you can use
on a daily basis as well.

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You can even take those seams

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so as not to get in the way
when passing the machine.

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- This side is wider.
-Hm!

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To come up here.

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Do it like this, right?

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Yes.

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-Leave a collar.
-Yes.

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We can cut it like a shirt sleeve.

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Do you like this proposal?

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Do you think it matches the play?

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We can look for another piece
to come from that other side.

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The public space, in addition to the studio,

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began to become a welcoming space,

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because I believe that gender is individual

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and collective at the same time.

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So, it is very important that each one speaks,

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each show their power

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to build dialogue,

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what are we going to pass on to people,

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in relation to us,

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and in relation to the
clothes we are wearing,

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in relation to the art that we are producing,

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in relation to everything that
involves our experience.

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Yeah, it has nothing to do with this sleeve.

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But we can make a sleeve, normal, like this.

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This sleeve will be everything,
it\'s a Caribbean thing.

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And this one can go the other way.

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Then we do that thing of creating a button...

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-To be able to close.
-...to close.

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-Yes, it\'s going to be cool.
- Got it?

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And we create a button on one side,

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-and another.
-Are you coming next week?

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-I come on Tuesday.
-On Tuesday?

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Uh-huh, then we can develop.

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- Then we do it together.
-Well done!

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They are bodies that have a life expectancy

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of 35 years.

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So, there is never a future perspective.

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Four men attacked me in the street,

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at night.

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I tried to file a complaint,

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and I was super demoralized
inside the police station.

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I couldn\'t even do the B.O.,

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because the guy who attends me
at a civil police station

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Said I didn\'t have enough bruises

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to do a forensic examination,

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and that the forensic examination
demanded money from the state,

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and that the state wasn\'t here to pay for it.

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We will not erase the violence, the vulnerability

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where our bodies meet,

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but we are going to change this path.

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Only three states reported that they had

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specialized police stations to handle cases

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of LGBT-phobia.

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Which actually shows that
there is an insufficiency

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of the Judiciary System in
dealing with these crimes.

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Another very important advance that
the Federal Supreme Court gave

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in relation to criminalization
is to recognize that death,

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the murder of LGBT people,
because they are LGBT,

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has to be investigated as
a \"silly reason\" murder,

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which is a more seriously
punished aggravated homicide.

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This recognition is important even

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for us to have better data
on attempted murders,

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on cases of homicides in Brazil
with the LGBT population,

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so that we can effectively formulate

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public policies on the subject,

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think where these deaths happen

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and why and by whom.

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we have as a record

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the country that kills the most
transvestites in the world

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and the country that most consumes
trans pornography in the world.

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I never heard a black
transvestite girl talking

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that she is a prostitute
because she likes it.

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If you cater to fetishes

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of what the white society wants,

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but still it is

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a very violent scene.

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\'Cause you\'re at the

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mercy of what man wants,

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and that man might not
even want you alive.

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I think in this process

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what happened was that we realized

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that if we didn\'t have
affection for each other,

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the girls were getting lost.

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Getting lost a lot.

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Losing their own lives, even.

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I think this process of creating a place of safety

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also comes from this encouragement,

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to look for more dignity of life.

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We are getting ready to go

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to our first LGBTI Parade in Rio.

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We go with people who live here at home and such.

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So we\'re excited, we\'re getting ready to go

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for a long time.

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We\'re getting organized, I made
clothes, it\'s super cool.

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For a long time, I didn\'t understand the meaning

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of the LGBTI Parade.

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I didn\'t understand the functionality of that,

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but today I understand it as a necessity

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of celebration of our existence.

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I think you need to have some time

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of our reality, or of our day to day,

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that we stop and think:
\"Wow, we\'re alive.\"

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It\'s that moment.

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It\'s that moment where you see equal people,

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where you feel most secure.

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Our existence is already a political act.

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It is a very remarkable political act.

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Marielle was a lesbian woman,

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openly lesbian,

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in a position of power that bothered them for that.

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And, after her, we have a lesbian mayor in Brazil,

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we have a lesbian councilwoman in Florianopolis.

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Movements emerging from popular organization.

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We have magazines coming up.

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We have a lesbian band,
we have...

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a flourishing cultural space.

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I think this is a great achievement,

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beyond institutional achievements.

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LGBT people fight to have rights

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like everyone else.

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The right not to be killed in the street,

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right not to be hated by politicians,

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right to have access to health,
to have their union recognized,

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their recognized marriage,
right to adoption.

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All rights are simply

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rights that all other people also have

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and LGBT people want to be
entitled to have rights.

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the relationship that

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I carry and

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I built with the city

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it is a relationship of
repaying violence with life.

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And occupy these places and
institutions with life

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that would normally be cisgender places.

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I still don\'t feel that I exist fully,

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because I still don\'t live
in a society that allows me

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to exist fully,

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but I feel that I am
building this society.

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And I think this is already
a very significant step

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for my fulfillment as an individual

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and as a collective.

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As a lesbian woman.

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At least 129 transexual people were murdered for
trans-phobia in 2019. 82% of the victims were black.

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Sao Paulo was the state with the
highest number of homicides.

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From 2014 to 2017, there was an increase of more
than 237% in the number of lesbian murders in Brazil.