One
of six hundred outdoors Mr. Malafia released in Rio de Janeiro City on
Sep 2010: "In favor of family and preservation of mankind. God created
male and female."
This is a short post about Avon Products,
Inc. and how their policies regarding LGBT community are not the same
depending on the country. In addition, this a call for action for my
friends and readers abroad, mainly in the USA, since Avon headquarters
are American and their representatives in other countries are
subsidiaries.
As you probably know, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) makes a list every year called Buyer’s Guide to help people decide from which corporations to buy their products and services. The personal care company Avon Products is very well rated by HRC, but
their subsidiary in Brazil has in their product catalogs books written
by a notorious anti-gay evangelical leader named Silas Malafaia.
Just to have a clue about ho is this man, he said in November 2011 to The New York Times the following: “I’m the public enemy No. 1 of the gay movement in Brazil“.
Andrew Chesunt, an expert on Latin American religions compared him to
Pat Robertson, a very known conservative and homophobic evangelist in
United States:
He’s like Pat Robertson in the sense of being a pioneer in moving Brazil’s evangelical right into the national political realm.
Mr. Silas Malafaia is a television
evangelist and he uses his milions of dollars to broadcast paid shows in
two Brazilian’s national networks, besides having frequent meetings
with congressmen in the capital of the country, Brasília. I highly
suggest you to take a better look in all Mr. Malafia said to NYT.
"Minister
Silas Responds": one of hundreds of books of Mr. Malafia that Avon's
catalogs distribute in Brazil. Source: Avon Brazil site
Above you can see one of Mr. Malafaia’s
books announced in Avon’s catalogs. Acoording to Avon Brazil, in their
advisor page, their brochure “Fashion and Home” is the largest seller of books
in Brazil. When Avon offers Mr. Malafaia books, the company is helping
Mr. Malafaia to continue his persecution against LGBT community in
Brazil.
Many of us had already contacted the
company both in Brazil and USA, but we need your help to speak about
this issue louder. This is why I’m asking you to send a message to Avon
USA (Contact Us) so
they can push Brazil’s subsidiary to review their catalog and remove
the books of this anti-gay evangelical leader. Also help us to spread
this call for action to your friends that are consumers of Avon
products.
Besides that, you can sign our petition to Avon Brazil in this link.
You just need to provide your full name (Nome completo) and e-mail
address. You can also fill your city (Cidade) and CEP (Zip code) if you
wish.
You can also speak out to Avon USA using their social networks: Facebook and Twitter. I’m really grateful for your help with this issue.
Original source:
http://queerandpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/avon-supports-anti-gay-preacher-in-brazil/
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