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Queerioca Center Opens as LGBTQ+ Warns Bolsonaro Threatens Quotas
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- Queerioca cultural center opened in Rio as a rainbow-community hub amid election tension.
- Founders Laura Castro and Cristina Flores, a lesbian couple with four children, say the house must remain a resistance space.
- Brazil’s LGBTQ+ activists warn far-right candidate Senator Flávio Bolsonaro could win the October 2026 election.
- Bolsonaro has proposed ending university quota seats for Black and disabled students, threatening programs that helped graduates like Felipe Vianna.