On April 16th, a retired gay man was found murdered in his apartment in Sao Paulo. He had met a hustler from Lagoa and allowed the hustler to stay with him in his apartment.

After three days of staying with the man, the hustler took the cord from the man's land-line telephone and wrapped the cord around the man's neck and strangled and killed him.

The hustler took only the man's cell phone and credit cards and a little cash - - plus the man's life.

The police claim that they are hunting the killer but I suspect that not much work will be done to look for the killer. The murder of a gay man in Brazil does not garner high priority for the police.

I presented this report only to keep visitors to Brazil in perspective.

Usually, visitors to Brazil have such a wonderful time they tend to forget the ugly side of life.

It is not uncommon for gays to be killed even in gay-friendly Brazil. It just takes one bad guy to cause something like this to happen. Then, we get shocked back to reality.

For those who read and understand Portuguese, here is a link to the event reported in the Brazilian news -

http://noticias.band.uol.com.br/brasilurgente/video/2015/04/16/15443479/aposentado-e-enforcado-por-garoto-de-programa.html

i cant watch the video unless i am in Brazil it says...