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Ellen Page confronts Jair Bolsonaro about homophobia, in Rio de Janeiro

In 2016, when he was still just a Congressman, Jair Bolsonaro was interviewed by US actor Ellen Page (star of Juno). Bolsonaro says he has nothing against her, because she is very pretty. If he were a military cadet, he would whistle at her in the street. When he was young there weren’t so many gay people, but now, thanks to liberal habits, drugs, women working, the number of homosexuals has increased.

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Video: published by Vice Media, 2016. In English and Portuguese with English subtitles. 2016.

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