Brazil's Supreme Court bans comic book censorship with a gay kiss

GAYLES.TV.- For the first time the soap opera in Brazil is not on television, but in the Book Biennial. The reason? A comic Marvel. More specifically the drawing of a gay kiss from the cartoon Avengers: Children's Crusade. The mayor of Rio de Janeirothe evangelical Marcelo Crivella, ordered that prosecutors remove books with improper content from the Book Biennial.

In the comic two of the heroes of the Young Avengers team, Wiccan y Hulking, they kiss. When the conservative mayor visited the biennial he was scandalized and ordered that the work be removed from the shelves because he considered the scene «inadequate«. «Books like that have to be wrapped in black plastic with a notice of the type of content", He said Crivella He argued that it was necessary “protect children”So that they do not have early access to matters that, according to him, are not appropriate for their ages.

The Biennial refused to withdraw the book, but on Saturday a Court of Justice of the State of Rio He allowed prosecutors to enter the exhibition to check if there was any work that went against family morale. The colonel Wolney Dias Toffoli, chief of the prosecutors, admitted that it was not found «nothing that was against the law«. Finally the legal war was closed with the decision of the Supreme that prohibited the censorship of the comic with the gay kiss. «The democratic regime presupposes an environment of free movement of ideas", he claimed Toffoli days.

Events like this are possible since the ultra-rightist Jair Bolsonaro came to the presidency of the country and started a crusade against the community LGTB +.