UFO mayor bans gays
• Homophobia
A controversial Brazilian mayor is being sued by human rights workers after he signed a decree banning homosexuals from living in his town.
Mayor Elcio Berti, of Bocaivua do Sul, said he decided to act after hearing an interview with a gay man who wanted to live in the town.
He told Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper: "I need to increase the population, by encouraging people to have kids, not with troublemakers.
"When I was a kid I used to live amongst criminals but even so they were all real men."
Mayor facing legal action for banning gays
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