For you see how I suffered to go there transformed into a drag queen, it was very painful for me, very painful, but I overcame, right. [...] We, from the collective Landless LGBT we are supporting. The group that was there had two people, and two weeks before the meeting they had attempted suicide and we are following these people. You have to try to get close as a friend. Teachers have a responsibility to care for because the likelihood of committing suicide is very high. The church sending me to hell; my family kicking me out of the house; and, what those damn neighbours will talk to if they find out that I am that? When I tried suicide that was what came into my head.

I was a very religious person, I locked myself in the seminary to try to heal myself, but it did not work out. I left the seminary. After a while, I returned home. My mother passed away and my pillar fell. I could not take it and tried suicide. But I did not have any sequels. [...] We, if the team needs to go to where the person is, not to let any of our brotherhoods, as we call ourselves.

There we think so. We are all human beings and one cares for the other, being LGBT or not. "Patriarchy destroys, capitalism makes war, LGBT blood is also Landless blood."

Rural school teacher’s Testimony.

Seminar: November 24-26, 2016.

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