Many international news sources picked up the story, appalled at the sheer disregard for life displayed in the horrific video. To many Brazilians, however, the video was not surprising. For many years, Brazil has held the world record for hate-based LGBT murders with recorded in resulting in the statistic of an LGBT person being killed roughly every 25 hours.
It is also a leader in manufacturing cheap antiretroviral drugs, also resulting in a higher level of people taking these medications as compared to the United States.
At the federal level, in , same-sex unions were legalized which eventually led to full marriage equality in In and the Supreme Court expanded rights for same-sex couples including adoption and expanded legal rights.
The country has also been very active in the fight for equal rights in international bodies such as the UN.
It was massively popular, however, it was almost completely defunded by the City official who put in charge of the program, among others, in the previous government. Unfortunately, the LGBT community has recently come under attack again which is leading to an ever-growing state of fear; this is exacerbated by the politicians who have recently taken power on the national and local level.
