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Rio de Janeiro Mayor Marcelo Crivella believes a gay kiss is by definition obscene. He used his administration to try and censor a Marvel comic book containing a scene in which two male, fully-clothed characters kiss. Crivella called it pornography targeted at children and teenagers.
In a country that figures among the top 10 consumers of porn on the internet, the argument that teens would have to buy a comic book to see explicit images is ridiculous. Not to mention that, by Crivella’s standards, the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel — which include a few images of men kissing — would have to be covered.
However, this kind of move is part of a ramping up of actions to curb freedom of speech in Brazil. Attacks which have come not only from the right, but also from the left.
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