Gender-neutral toilets divide gay community in Brazil

Dan82 · Jan 22, 2011

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2011/01/gay-toilets-brazil-rio-samba-carnaval.html

Boys, Girls, and Gender-Neutral?

A prominent samba dance school in Brazil has decided to make it so, generating questions over the reaches of rights for gay, lesbian and transgender people -- even in the simple act of using a toilet.

Unidos da Tijuca, one of the top samba schools in Rio de Janeiro, established separate bathrooms for gay and transgender people at new facilities it inaugurated on Jan. 8. Rio, considered one of the most gay-friendly cities in the world, is preparing for the massive Carnival festival happening in early March.

Media reports in Brazil said that at least one other samba school in Rio already has such "gender-neutral" restrooms. Use of the new third bathrooms at Unidos da Tijuca -- which was named champion of Carnival last year -- is optional, the school maintains...

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MIJ VI · Jan 22, 2011

Toilets? Gee, I wonder what the L.A. Times has to say about this:

A Brazilian gay group claims that 250 LGBT people were killed in hate crimes in 2010.
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