Brazil LGBTQ group hides from virus in Copacabana building

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About 50 LGBTQ people have sheltered from the new coronavirus in a formerly abandoned building a few blocks from Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach. They've barred themselves from leaving except for emergencies or other exceptional circumstances.

Members of the LGBTQ community gather in the courtyard of the squat known as Casa Nem to watch the weekly presentations by residents on a makeshift stage, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, May 23, 2020. "Stonewall" is spray painted on an upper beam as a tribute to the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York, the start of a rebellion that helped propel and transform the modern LGBTQ rights movement.

In 2016, her organization took over the balconied building with small bedrooms, shared bathrooms and a big common kitchen. The residents found it dirty and abandoned, including one room with artwork, bronze busts and taxidermied animals. Casa Nem became a shelter for LGBTQ victims of violence and those who, rejected by their families, have nowhere to live.

While some found refuge at Casa Nem, others like transgender prostitute Alice Larubia, 25, are stuck on the streets, hustling to earn enough to get by as the economy tanks. Normally quick to smile and joke, Larubia grows serious when discussing her future after the pandemic. She wants out of prostitution, and likes the idea of working in a beauty salon.

After a month quarantining at home with some financial support from family, Larubia resumed work in Niteroi, a city across the bay from Rio.

 

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This is not newsworthy. People are more interested in hearing how small businesses are recovering from riots and looting.

Biden’s new embassy in Brazil is jumping the gun a bit isn’t it?

So are they IN the Copacabana building or are they a few blocks away from the Copacabana building?

I’m sure they are spreading other communicable diseases meanwhile

Pinning LG & Q with BT is a crime against the BT LGBTQ LGBTQpride

I hope they are safe

Brazil is such a nightmare now. Those poor folks, good for them trying to be proactive. I feel for the whole country, another one run by a complete idiot.

Is that how Associated Press was born?

Fakenews

May thunder strike them at once and bodies burnt without trace

How do they get groceries?

But many Americans can’t be bothered to just wear a mask.

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