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'''Jean Wyllys''' (born '''Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos'''{{efn|{{IPA-pt|ʒeˈɐ̃ ˈwiljs d͡ʒj ˈmatws ˈsɐ̃tws|br}}.}} on 10 March 1974 in ], ], ]) is a Brazilian lecturer, journalist and politician who rose to fame after winning the ] of '']''. He is also notable for being Brazil's second openly homossexual member in the ], being compared to ], an openly gay rights activist and U.S. politician.<ref name="Guard">, Guardian, retrieved 27 January 2012</ref> '''Jean Wyllys''' (born '''Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos'''{{efn|{{IPA-pt|ʒeˈɐ̃ ˈwiljs d͡ʒj ˈmatws ˈsɐ̃tws|br}}.}} on 10 March 1974 in ], Bahia, ]) is a Brazilian lecturer, journalist and politician who rose to fame after winning the ] of '']''. He is also notable as being Brazil's second openly gay member of parliament.<ref name=Guard>, Guardian, retrieved 27 January 2012</ref> (] was the first openly gay elected member of Parliament, but unlike Wyllys, Clodovil was not a gay rights activist, i.e. he was opposed to ].)<ref> With about 500 thousand votes, Clodovil is the first gay elected for federal deputy (Portuguese)</ref>
⚫ == Life ==
⚫ Wyllys was born in ], in the north-eastern state of ], one of seven children.<ref name=Guard/> His mother was a washerwoman and his father a car painter who suffered from alcoholism.<ref name=Guard/> Wyllys attended a boarding school which gave him the opportunity to get a better education than the average child in his village. Wyllys later moved to ] and completed his degree in journalism at the ].<ref name=Guard/> He first rose to fame after becoming the finalist in the Brazilian reality television show, '']''. He was the first openly gay participant in the show, which caused a lot of controversy amongst fans and participants alike. Wyllys described his victory as being of "great political relevance I said I was a homosexual and I still won the reality show in a country that is ]."<ref name=Guard/>


Due to this, he has been compared to ], an early openly gay politician in the United States of America and iconic gay rights activist.<ref name=Guard/>
⚫ === Political career ===
⚫ In 2010 Wyllys was elected a federal MP, representing the ] party, with an average of 13,000 votes.<ref>http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/eleicoes/exbbb-jean-wyllys-e-eleito-deputado-federal/n1237790770320.html</ref> His election was only possible, considering the number of votes he had in 2010 elections, through the so called "voto de legenda" (party vote), a constitutional mechanism that allows candidates who doesn't have an expressive number of votes to be elected from the votes of another highly voted candidate of the same party.<ref>http://g1.globo.com/especiais/eleicoes-2010/noticia/2010/10/confira-puxadores-de-voto-que-ajudaram-eleger-outros-candidatos.html</ref> In Wyllys' case, the votes of another congressman of ], Chico Alencar, who was one of the most voted in ], helped in his election. Once occupying a chair in ], Wyllys brought his activism on the ] to the scene. Once forgotten by Brazilian media since his winning in the ] fifth season in 2005, five years before his election, he was finally back to the spotlight from the moment he started working on his political platform, that was primarily the fight for ]. By doing this, he ended up confronting prominent Brazilian right-wing figures, like pastor ], a famous televangelist and national president of ] Churches, and ], a congress member who became Wyllys' number one enemy in the congress. The proposition of three polemic law projects by Wyllys made him a notorious figure for the liberal and leftist society members, as well as a threatening figure for some conservative and the religious members. In those law projects are included the prostitution houses legalization, the marijuana production and use regulation, the inclusion of Arabic and Islam studies in Brazilian school curricula and the State financing for ] and ] for ] teenagers and adults.<ref>http://www.camara.gov.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=565315</ref><ref>http://www.camara.gov.br/sileg/integras/905839.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.camara.gov.br/proposicoesWeb/prop_mostrarintegra?codteor=1012829</ref><ref>http://www.camara.gov.br/proposicoesWeb/prop_mostrarintegra?codteor=1237297</ref>


⚫ ==Life==
⚫ Wyllys' political acting of defending ] and his very existence as an ] congress member and human rights activist have transformed him in a public enemy of conservative political forces in ]. In a country with a wide rate of homophobic crimes as Brazil, he began to receive ] that became more recurrent since his political enemies started a slanderous campaign against him by posting and sharing in social media like Facebook images with quotes that he have supposedly said about being an openly pedophile defender, for example.<ref>http://extra.globo.com/famosos/jean-wyllys-ganha-protecao-policial-ao-sofrer-ameaca-de-morte-8063027.html</ref> Among other quotes attributed to him, the one that he had affirmed that the Bible was "a joke" Christians and Bible followers were "clowns" was highly spread. In spite of those quotes had never been existed, people in social networks still share them, strengthening the ongoing hate campaign against Wyllys. To clean up his image damaged by that orchestrated campaign, he created a section on his official website where he refutes all the quotes attributed to him.<ref>http://jeanwyllys.com.br/verdadeoumentira/</ref> Although his political image in the public sphere had been degraded by the slanderous campaign, he ran for congress once again in 2014 and kept his chair in the parliament with more than 100,000 votes, being the seventh most voted representative of Rio de Janeiro.<ref>http://blogs.odia.ig.com.br/lgbt/2014/10/05/jean-wyllys-e-reeleito-deputado-federal-com-mais-de-100-mil-votos/</ref>
⚫ Wyllys was born in ], in the north-eastern state of ], one of seven children.<ref name=Guard/> His mother was a washerwoman and his father a car painter who suffered from alcoholism.<ref name=Guard/> Wyllys attended a boarding school which gave him the opportunity to get a better education than the average child in his village. Wyllys later moved to ] and completed his degree in journalism at the ].<ref name=Guard/> He first rose to fame after becoming the finalist in the Brazilian reality television show, '']''. He was the first openly gay participant in the show, which caused a lot of controversy amongst fans and participants alike. Wyllys described his victory as being of "great political relevance I said I was a homosexual and I still won the programme in a country that is ]."<ref name=Guard/>


⚫ ===Political career===
⚫ Today Wyllys works on the front line of ]'s government opposition. It was announced in 2015 that Brazilian independent filmmakers were planning to produce a documentary about Wyllys' political career and acting. The documentary was released in 2016 with the title "Entre os Homens de Bem" (Among the Virtuous Men) and it focuses on the political arena in Brazil built on topics such as ] and other LGBT rights, having Wyllys and some conservative politicians as the main characters. In the same year, Wyllys was included in a list called "Top 50 global personalities with an outstanding commitment to diversity".<ref>http://ceoworld.biz/2015/11/24/top-50-global-personalities-with-an-outstanding-commitment-to-diversity</ref>
⚫ In 2010 Wyllys was elected a federal MP, representing the ] party, with an average of 13,000 votes.<ref>http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/eleicoes/exbbb-jean-wyllys-e-eleito-deputado-federal/n1237790770320.html</ref> His election was only possible, considering the number of votes he had in 2010 elections, through the so called "voto de legenda" (party vote), a constitutional mechanism that allows candidates who doesn't have an expressive number of votes to be elected from the votes of another highly voted candidate of the same party.<ref>http://g1.globo.com/especiais/eleicoes-2010/noticia/2010/10/confira-puxadores-de-voto-que-ajudaram-eleger-outros-candidatos.html</ref> In Wyllys' case, the votes of another congressman of ], Chico Alencar, who was one of the most voted in ], helped in his election. Once occupying a chair in ], Wyllys brought his activism on the ] to the scene. Once forgotten by Brazilian media since his winning in the ] fifth season in 2005, five years before his election, he was finally back to the spotlight from the moment he started working on his political platform, that was primarily the fight for ]. By doing this, he ended up confronting prominent Brazilian right-wing figures, like pastor ], a famous televangelist and national president of ] Churches, and ], a congress member who became Wyllys' number one enemy in the congress. The proposition of three polemic law projects by Wyllys made him a notorious figure for the liberal and leftist society members, as well as a threatening figure for some conservative and the religious members. In those law projects are included the prostitution houses legalization, the marijuana production and use regulation, the inclusion of Arabic and Islam studies in Brazilian school curricula and the State financing for ] and ] for ] teenagers and adults.<ref>http://www.camara.gov.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=565315</ref><ref>http://www.camara.gov.br/sileg/integras/905839.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.camara.gov.br/proposicoesWeb/prop_mostrarintegra?codteor=1012829</ref><ref>http://www.camara.gov.br/proposicoesWeb/prop_mostrarintegra?codteor=1237297</ref>

== Controversies ==
In 2013, Wyllys was accused of being the author of ] phrases and in defense of ] which were disseminated on the Internet. In his defense, he stated he did not write the sentences and was a target of a defamatory campaign.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318173913/http://colunistas.ig.com.br/jean-wyllys/2013/03/14/novas-e-velhas-calunias/|title=Novas e velhas calúnias {{!}} Blog de Jean Wyllys – iG|date=2013-03-18|access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219135928/http://psol50.org.br/site/noticias/116/nova-onda-de-calunias-contra-o-deputado-jean-wyllys-e-disseminada-pela-internet|title=PSOL 50 {{!}} Nova onda de calúnias contra o deputado Jean Wyllys é disseminada pela internet|date=2013-12-19|access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref>

In July 2013, in the ''Tas ao vivo'' talk-show, when asked about the remuneration of Brazilian parliamentarians, Wyllys declared that he did not find the remuneration excessive and compared his earnings with the salary of a private university professor: "When you deduct everything, the party contribution, income tax, I pretty much get what I used to earn as a teacher , which is about R$15.000. Considering how much I work, I do not think this is a high salary."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130710200135/http://diversao.terra.com.br/tas-ao-vivo/videos/jean-wyllys-abre-o-jogo-sobre-salario-de-deputado,476727.html|title=Jean Wyllys abre o jogo sobre salário de deputado - Terra|date=2013-07-10|access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref> The statement had an impact on the Internet creating a heated debate and controversy. In his defense, Wyllys stated that he "did not say that the members 'earn a low salary', nor that the salary of a deputy is equal to a professor but that after the mandatory deductions, what goes into my pocket every month is less than I would earn today, considering my qualification, if I worked in the private sector."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324065252/http://www.cartacapital.com.br/politica/voce-quer-saber-quanto-recebe-um-deputado-8802.html|title=Você quer saber quanto recebe um deputado? — CartaCapital|date=2016-03-24|access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref>


⚫ Wyllys' political acting of defending ] and his very existence as an ] congress member and human rights activist have transformed him in a public enemy of conservative political forces in ]. In a country with a wide rate of homophobic crimes as Brazil, he began to receive ] that became more recurrent since his political enemies started a slanderous campaign against him by posting and sharing in social media like Facebook images with quotes that he have supposedly said about being an openly pedophile defender, for example.<ref>http://extra.globo.com/famosos/jean-wyllys-ganha-protecao-policial-ao-sofrer-ameaca-de-morte-8063027.html</ref> Among other quotes attributed to him, the one that he had affirmed that the Bible was "a joke" Christians and Bible followers were "clowns" was highly spread. In spite of those quotes had never been existed, people in social networks still share them, strengthening the ongoing hate campaign against Wyllys. To clean up his image damaged by that orchestrated campaign, he created a section on his official webpage where he refutes all the quotes attributed to him.<ref>http://jeanwyllys.com.br/verdadeoumentira/</ref> Although his political image in the public sphere had been degraded by the slanderous campaign, he ran for congress once again in 2014 and kept his chair in the parliament with more than 100,000 votes, being the seventh most voted representative of Rio de Janeiro.<ref>http://blogs.odia.ig.com.br/lgbt/2014/10/05/jean-wyllys-e-reeleito-deputado-federal-com-mais-de-100-mil-votos/</ref>
In October 2014, during the ], Wyllys classified, through a social network, the majority of ] voters as "], racists and violent". Shortly after the episode, Wyllys portrayed himself saying that he "actually meant that a good part and not most of those voters fall into this disqualifying labels".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101003231/https://veja.abril.com.br/blog/felipe-moura-brasil/2014/10/13/as-falsas-desculpas-de-jean-wyllys-deputado-apaga-post-ofensivo-mas-xinga-mais-ainda-eleitores-de-aecio-agora-nao-ha-so-racistas-e-classistas-ha-fascistas-e-homofobicos-tambem-linha-auxiliar-do/|title=As falsas desculpas de Jean Wyllys: deputado apaga post ofensivo, mas xinga mais ainda eleitores de Aécio. Agora não há só racistas e classistas, há fascistas e homofóbicos também. “Linha auxiliar do PT” segue alinhada na baixaria {{!}} Felipe Moura Brasil - VEJA.com|date=2014-11-01|access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref>


⚫ Today Wyllys works on the front line of ]'s government opposition. It was announced in 2015 that Brazilian independent filmmakers were planning to produce a documentary about Wyllys' political career and acting. The documentary was released in 2016 with the title "Entre os Homens de Bem" (Among the Virtuous Men) and it focuses on the political arena in Brazil built on topics such as ] and other LGBT rights, having Wyllys and some conservative politicians as the main characters. In the same year, Wyllys was included in a list called "Top 50 global personalities with an outstanding commitment to diversity".<ref>http://ceoworld.biz/2015/11/24/top-50-global-personalities-with-an-outstanding-commitment-to-diversity</ref>
In November of 2014, Wyllys was criticized by leaders of his own party and by ] rights group for defending the TV show {{ILL|Sexo e as Negas|pt|''Sexo e as Negas''}}, shown by ]. Wyllys said that, unlike those who accused the show of being sexist and racist, the production actually "denounces racism" and stated that ], the director of the show, is a guy who is far, far away of being racist". However, the TV show has been denounced to the Secretary of Policies for Women and is still subject to criticism by women and afro-descendants movements.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.diariodepernambuco.com.br/app/noticia/politica/2014/11/18/interna_politica,543467/jean-wyllys-diz-que-minisserie-sexo-e-as-negas-denuncia-o-racismo-no-brasil.shtml|title=Jean Wyllys diz que minissérie Sexo e as Negas denuncia o racismo no Brasil|last=Pernambuco|first=Diario de|date=2014-11-18|work=Diario de Pernambuco|access-date=2018-12-01|language=pt-BR}}</ref>


== Notes == ==Notes==
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== References == ==References==
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Jean Wyllys
Jean Wyllys in 2015.
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
from Rio de Janeiro
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 February 2011
Personal details
Born (1974-03-10) 10 March 1974 (age 50)
Alagoinhas, Bahia, Brazil
Political partyPSOL
Website

Jean Wyllys (born Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos on 10 March 1974 in Alagoinhas, Bahia, Brazil) is a Brazilian lecturer, journalist and politician who rose to fame after winning the fifth season of Big Brother Brasil. He is also notable as being Brazil's second openly gay member of parliament. (Clodovil Hernandes was the first openly gay elected member of Parliament, but unlike Wyllys, Clodovil was not a gay rights activist, i.e. he was opposed to same-sex marriage.)

Due to this, he has been compared to Harvey Milk, an early openly gay politician in the United States of America and iconic gay rights activist.

Life

Wyllys was born in Alagoinhas, in the north-eastern state of Bahia, one of seven children. His mother was a washerwoman and his father a car painter who suffered from alcoholism. Wyllys attended a boarding school which gave him the opportunity to get a better education than the average child in his village. Wyllys later moved to Salvador and completed his degree in journalism at the Federal University of Bahia. He first rose to fame after becoming the finalist in the Brazilian reality television show, Big Brother Brasil. He was the first openly gay participant in the show, which caused a lot of controversy amongst fans and participants alike. Wyllys described his victory as being of "great political relevance I said I was a homosexual and I still won the programme in a country that is homophobic."

Political career

In 2010 Wyllys was elected a federal MP, representing the Socialism and Freedom party, with an average of 13,000 votes. His election was only possible, considering the number of votes he had in 2010 elections, through the so called "voto de legenda" (party vote), a constitutional mechanism that allows candidates who doesn't have an expressive number of votes to be elected from the votes of another highly voted candidate of the same party. In Wyllys' case, the votes of another congressman of Socialism and Liberty Party, Chico Alencar, who was one of the most voted in Rio de Janeiro, helped in his election. Once occupying a chair in Brazilian Congress, Wyllys brought his activism on the LGBT movement to the scene. Once forgotten by Brazilian media since his winning in the Big Brother Brasil fifth season in 2005, five years before his election, he was finally back to the spotlight from the moment he started working on his political platform, that was primarily the fight for LGBT rights. By doing this, he ended up confronting prominent Brazilian right-wing figures, like pastor Silas Malafaia, a famous televangelist and national president of Assembly of God Churches, and Jair Bolsonaro, a congress member who became Wyllys' number one enemy in the congress. The proposition of three polemic law projects by Wyllys made him a notorious figure for the liberal and leftist society members, as well as a threatening figure for some conservative and the religious members. In those law projects are included the prostitution houses legalization, the marijuana production and use regulation, the inclusion of Arabic and Islam studies in Brazilian school curricula and the State financing for sex reassignment surgeries and hormonal treatment for transgender teenagers and adults.

Wyllys' political acting of defending minority rights and his very existence as an openly gay congress member and human rights activist have transformed him in a public enemy of conservative political forces in Brazil. In a country with a wide rate of homophobic crimes as Brazil, he began to receive death threats that became more recurrent since his political enemies started a slanderous campaign against him by posting and sharing in social media like Facebook images with quotes that he have supposedly said about being an openly pedophile defender, for example. Among other quotes attributed to him, the one that he had affirmed that the Bible was "a joke" Christians and Bible followers were "clowns" was highly spread. In spite of those quotes had never been existed, people in social networks still share them, strengthening the ongoing hate campaign against Wyllys. To clean up his image damaged by that orchestrated campaign, he created a section on his official webpage where he refutes all the quotes attributed to him. Although his political image in the public sphere had been degraded by the slanderous campaign, he ran for congress once again in 2014 and kept his chair in the parliament with more than 100,000 votes, being the seventh most voted representative of Rio de Janeiro.

Today Wyllys works on the front line of Michel Temer's government opposition. It was announced in 2015 that Brazilian independent filmmakers were planning to produce a documentary about Wyllys' political career and acting. The documentary was released in 2016 with the title "Entre os Homens de Bem" (Among the Virtuous Men) and it focuses on the political arena in Brazil built on topics such as gay marriage and other LGBT rights, having Wyllys and some conservative politicians as the main characters. In the same year, Wyllys was included in a list called "Top 50 global personalities with an outstanding commitment to diversity".

Notes

  1. Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒeˈɐ̃ ˈwiljs d͡ʒj ˈmatws ˈsɐ̃tws].

References

  1. ^ Jean Wyllys, Brazil's first openly gay MP, takes fight to the religious right, Guardian, retrieved 27 January 2012
  2. With about 500 thousand votes, Clodovil is the first gay elected for federal deputy (Portuguese)
  3. http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/eleicoes/exbbb-jean-wyllys-e-eleito-deputado-federal/n1237790770320.html
  4. http://g1.globo.com/especiais/eleicoes-2010/noticia/2010/10/confira-puxadores-de-voto-que-ajudaram-eleger-outros-candidatos.html
  5. http://www.camara.gov.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=565315
  6. http://www.camara.gov.br/sileg/integras/905839.pdf
  7. http://www.camara.gov.br/proposicoesWeb/prop_mostrarintegra?codteor=1012829
  8. http://www.camara.gov.br/proposicoesWeb/prop_mostrarintegra?codteor=1237297
  9. http://extra.globo.com/famosos/jean-wyllys-ganha-protecao-policial-ao-sofrer-ameaca-de-morte-8063027.html
  10. http://jeanwyllys.com.br/verdadeoumentira/
  11. http://blogs.odia.ig.com.br/lgbt/2014/10/05/jean-wyllys-e-reeleito-deputado-federal-com-mais-de-100-mil-votos/
  12. http://ceoworld.biz/2015/11/24/top-50-global-personalities-with-an-outstanding-commitment-to-diversity
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