Organizers say the festival 'gives a voice to all audiences, without distinction, as a democracy should be,' according to a statement translated in Newsarama, adding that this week the Bienial Do Livro will offer three panels spotlighting trans and LGBTQA + literature. He then went a step further, ordering the graphic novel be removed from the event altogether.Īccording to O Globo, fair organizers refused to comply with the request and, on Thursday, Crivela ordered a raid on the fair-directing agents to seize all copies of the comic because it had 'sexual content for minors.' Last week, mayor Marcelo Crivela demanded that organizers of the Bienial Do Livro book fair wrap all copies of the 2012 trade paperback version of Avengers: The Children's Crusade in opaque black plastic. After the evangelical mayor of Rio de Janeiro ordered the banning of a comic book because it depicted a same-sex kiss, the country's largest newspaper printed the couple's lip lock on its front page.
