Brazil’s gay mag shuts down

Kerry seeks legal status for Brazil gay man

(Boston, Massachusetts) Sen. John Kerry has asked the Obama administration to grant asylum to a gay man who was forced to return to Brazil after he was married to a U.S. citizen in Massachusetts.

Genesio “Junior” Oliveira has been separated from his husband, Tim Coco, since August 2007, when he left …

Brazil gay killings may be work of serial killer

(Sao Paulo, Brazil) Brazilian police are investigating whether a possible serial killer is behind the murders of more than a dozen gay men in a park in suburban Sao Paulo.

Police chief Paulo Fernando Fortunato tells the O Globo newspaper that 13 gay men were killed there between February 2007 and …