Arts & Humanities

Brazil's Sex Wars

Editorial: University of Texas Press

ISBN: 9781477330111

Pub: 2024-12-12

For decades, LGBT+ activists across the globe have secured victories by persuasively articulating rights to sexual autonomy. Brazilian activists, some of the world’s most energetic, have kept pace. But since 2010, a backlash has set in, as defenders of “tradition” and “family” have countered LGBT+ rights discourses using a rights-based language of their own.