Luiz Roberto de Barros Mott orLuiz Mott (born 6 May 1946) in São Paulo, is an anthropologist and agay rights activist in Brazil.
Luiz Mott graduated with a degree inSocial Sciences from theUniversity of São Paulo (USP) during themilitary regime, obtained amaster's degree inEthnography from theSorbonne and a doctorate inanthropology from theUniversity of Campinas in São Paulo.[1]
Luiz Mott is professoremeritus of the Department of Anthropology of theFederal University of Bahia (UFBA).[2] In his work Mott has tracedhomosexual desire in a number of indigenous Brazilian tribes such as theBororo,Guató,Trumai,Tupinambá,Wai Wai andXavante.[3] He has also exploredintimate partner violence between gay, transsexual and transgender people inSalvador, the capital of the Brazilian state ofBahia.[4] In 1995, he declared that national heroZumbi dos Palmares had been gay.[5]
Alongside his academic work, Mott is also agay rights activist and founded theGay Group of Bahia [ar;ast;es;fr;it;pt] in 1980.[6][7] It was the first homosexual support group in Bahia and Mott ensured its survival by pressuring the municipal government to fund it. It published records of homophobic attacks, raised awareness ofHIV/AIDS and organised apride parade, workshops, educational events and protests.[4] He also created Centro Baiano Anti-AIDS.[2]
In 1993, he published the first account of the life ofRosa Egipcíaca, a religious mystic and formerly enslaved prostitute, who wrote the bookSagrada Teologia do Amor Divino das Almas Peregrinas, which was the first book to be written by a black woman in Brazil.[8][9][10]
In 1995, he was awarded the Felipa de Souza Award by theInternational Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (now OutRight Action International).[7] Mott commented to theLos Angeles Times in 2015: "Brazil is an extremely contradictory country. On the one hand, we are a pink country, celebrating sexual diversity [..] then, there is another color, the red blood of victims."[6]
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