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“It is a big responsibility … but I feel very honored,” said Hilton.

She also said she considers herself a role model for trans and trasvesti Brazilians. “I am afraid, but I think that this fear is not going to be able to stop me,” said Hilton. A security guard stood a few feet away from her while she spoke with the Blade. Hilton acknowledged she worries about her safety. Keila Simpson, president of Associaçao Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais (National Association of Travestis and Transsexuals), a Brazilian trans rights group known by the acronym ANTRA, earlier this year told the Blade that efforts to combat violence against LGBTQ and intersex Brazilians have become more difficult because Bolsonaro is “propagating violence against LGBTQ people every day.” The incumbent president, among other things, has expressed his opposition to “gender ideology” and condemned a 2019 Brazilian Supreme Court ruling that criminalized homophobia and transphobia.ĭiscrimination and violence based on gender identity remains commonplace in Brazil, and a Brazilian advocacy group noted 175 trans people were killed in the country in 2020. 30 runoff.īolsonaro has faced sharp criticism because of his rhetoric against LGBTQ and intersex Brazilians, women, people of African and indigenous descent and other groups. President Jair Bolsonaro, a former Brazilian Army captain who is a member of the right-wing Liberal Party, will face off against Da Silva, a member of the leftist Workers’ Party who was Brazil’s president from 2003-2010, in an Oct. Salabert and Hilton are two of the 18 openly LGBTQ candidates who won their respective races. Salabert in a video she posted to her Twitter account noted she received the highest number of votes of any congressional candidate in her state’s history.

2.īelo Horizonte Municipal Councilwoman Duda Salabert, who is a member of the leftist Democratic Labor Party, also won her congressional race in Minas Gerais state. The member of the leftist Socialism and Liberty Party is among the 10 congressional candidates in São Paulo state who received the most votes on Oct. Hilton, 29, is a Black travesti and former sex worker who won a seat on the São Paulo Municipal Council in 2016.