Grupo Gay da Bahia

Grupo Gay da Bahia
Formation1980
FounderLuiz Mott
HeadquartersSalvador, Bahia
LeaderMarcelo Cerqueira
Websitehttps://grupogaydabahia.com.br/

The Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB; English: Gay Group of Bahia) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to defending LGBTQ rights in Brazil. Founded in 1980, it is the oldest Brazilian association of its kind still in operation. In 1988, the Group was appointed a member of the Ministry of Health's National AIDS Commission and, since 1995, has been a member of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.[1] Its headquarters are in Salvador, in Pelourinho.[2]

Among its founders, gay activist and professor Luiz Mott from the Department of Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia stands out, who holds a permanent position as Honorary President of the group.[2]

Since its inception, the Group has gained notoriety for aggregating statistics on violence against LGBTQ people in Brazil. In the absence of government surveys, the organization relies on information gathered from the media, online research sites, and direct correspondence sent to the GGB. The reports, published annually, are widely disseminated by various media outlets.[3][4]

The organization also played an important role in the movement to depathologize homosexuality in Brazil, mobilizing political support for the removal of paragraph 302.0 of the INAMPS Health Code.[5]

History

In 1981, celebrating its first anniversary, the Grupo Gay da Bahia published a summary of the group's actions on behalf of the LGBTQ community. Among its initiatives were a campaign to end homosexuality as a "deviation and mental disorder"; participation in the celebration of International Gay Pride Day, with activities such as lectures, graffiti, and leaflet distribution; and the organization of caravans in various cities in the Northeast region, among others.[6]

In 1982, the Grupo Gay da Bahia published its first bulletin containing a list of LGBT people who had been murdered as a hate crime, entitled Research on Homosexuals Murdered in Brazil (Portuguese: Pesquisa sobre Homossexuais assassinados no Brasil).[6][7]

In 1991, the institution created the Pink Triangle Award, considered the first LGBTQIA+ award in Brazil.[8][9]

Criticism

Critics of the Grupo Gay da Bahia's work accuse the organization of inflating data on the true number of homophobic deaths in Brazil by classifying homosexual deaths as examples of "gay-hate deaths." In 2015, journalist Dario Di Martino produced a case-by-case review of the Grupo Gay da Bahia's 2013 report;[10] in 2017, civil servant Daniel Reynaldo started a blog initially specializing in reviewing cases treated by the GGB as deaths motivated by LGBTphobic hate;[11] later, geneticist Eli Vieira led a case-by-case review of the data from the 2016 report.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Grupo Gay da Bahia – GGB – Pelourinho Dia e Noite". pelourinhodiaenoite.salvador.ba.gov.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 15 June 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 "O que é o GGB – Grupo Gay da Bahia". Grupo Gay da Bahia (in Brazilian Portuguese). 22 February 2024. Archived from the original on 20 July 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  3. ↑ "A cada 25h, uma pessoa LGBT é assassinada no país, revela pesquisa". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 17 May 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  4. ↑ Brasil, Agência (17 May 2017). "Uma pessoa LGBT é morta a cada 25 horas no Brasil". Correio do Povo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  5. ↑ Carneiro, Ailton (2015). "A MORTE DA CLÍNICA: MOVIMENTO HOMOSSEXUAL E LUTA PELA DESPATOLOGIZAÇÃO DA HOMOSSEXUALIDADE NO BRASIL (1978-1990)" (PDF). XXVIII Simpósio Nacional de História (in Brazilian Portuguese).
  6. 1 2 Carneiro, Aílton José dos Santso (2015). "Salvador dos homossexuais: militância homossexual e homossociabilidade na Bahia nos anos 1980". Temporalidades (in Brazilian Portuguese). 7 (3): 9–30. ISSN 1984-6150.
  7. ↑ "População LGBT morta no Brasil – Relatório 2018" (PDF). tribunahoje.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  8. ↑ Miller, Victor (26 January 2022). "Conheça a história do "Troféu Triângulo Rosa", premiação LGBTQIA+ do Brasil que acontece desde 1991". GAY BLOG BR @gayblogbr (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  9. ↑ "No Brasil, uma pessoa LGBT é assassinada a cada 25 horas". Revista Fórum (in Brazilian Portuguese). 17 May 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  10. ↑ "A farsa dos crimes homofóbicos no Brasil" (PDF). jornalistadimartino.webnode.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  11. ↑ "Relembre alguns dos casos mais marcantes da longa história de fraude do Grupo Gay da Bahia" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 5 November 2020. Archived from the original on 5 November 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  12. ↑ Cordeiro, Tiago (2 May 2019). "Estatísticas sobre morte provocada por homofobia são infladas, conclui estudo". Gazeta do Povo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 13 August 2025.
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