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Brazil Recognizes Legal Rights of Same-Sex Couples, Defies Church

By Angie Romero | 05/09/2011 - 18:04 | 1 Comment

Brazil has never been a country that is afraid of defiance. Remember when they broke Merck’s patent on the AIDS drug efivarenz in 2007 in favor of a much cheaper, generic kind, in essence giving the middle finger to pharma giants?

Now, in a watershed moment for gay rights activists, the country’s Supreme Court has ruled that the legal rights of same-sex couples must...

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