We remained discussing for three months how far did the tongue enter. “It is worth telling the following story: one difficulty we faced regards one such didactic material, a film which showed a kiss in the mouth A lesbian kiss in the mouth. In November 2010, during the “School without Homophobia” seminar, which was held in the Participative Legislation Commission, André Lázaro, who was then MEC’s secretary, said that members of MEC discussed, among other things, the contents of the videos suggested by the campaign material. “The School without Homophobia project aims to contribute to the implementation and establishment of actions which promote social and political environments favorable to the guarantee of human rights and the respect towards sexual orientations and gender identities within the scope of Brazilian schools,” says the document, concluded in September 2010. Developed by the Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians, Transvestites and Transsexuals (ABGLT), Pathfinder Brasil, ECOS-Comunicação em Sexualidade and Reprolatina-Soluções Inovadoras em Saúde Sexual e Reprodutiva, the textbook provided orientations to teachers in activities to fight homophobia among their students, and brought indications of films and videos (more on the content below).Īs shown by the document itself, the project had the technical orientation by the Ministry of Education’s Continued Education, Literacy and Diversity Bureau (SECAD), and was financed via a parliamentary amendment approved by the Chamber of Deputies’ Participative Legislation Commission, after an initiative taken by deputy Fátima Bezerra (PT-RN). “Gay Kit” is the name the textbook “School without Homophobia”, as well as its annex material, came to be known popularly.
Justice Horbach stated that “it is equally notorious that the ‘School without Homophobia’ project was never implemented by the Ministry of Education, and therefore never actually did distribute the didactic material associated to it,” but the project has been developed with the technical orientation of the Ministry of Education’s Continued Education, Literacy and Diversity Bureau (SECAD), and was never implemented due to the opposition of congressmen, who led the administration of then-president Dilma Rousseff (PT) to veto the material. Indeed, although the book is not part of the “School without Homophobia” material, it is not true that the Gay Kit never existed.
The justice based his decision in an official statement made by the Ministry of Education (MEC) which claims that it “did not produce, neither acquired or distributed” the book, which is also not a part of the National Didactic Book Program (PNLD) nor the National School Library Program (PNBE). This Tuesday (16), Electoral Superior Court (TSE) justice Carlos Horbach forbade the airing of videos in which presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) said the book “Sexual Apparatus & Co.”, published in Brazil by Companhia das Letras, was part of the textbook “School without Homophobia”, produced in 2010, who became known as the “Gay Kit”. Book showed by Bolsonaro on video was not included in the “School without Homophobia” project, but it’s not true that the so-called “Gay Kit” never existed