Jean Wyllys

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Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos (born Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos on March 10, 1974) in Alagoinhas, Bahia, Brazil, is a Brazilian lecturer, journalist, and politician who came to prominence after winning the fifth season of Big Brother Brasil.

He was also known as Brazil's second openly gay member of parliament and the first congressman to endorse a gay rights campaign.

He has been compared to Harvey Milk for his work.

He resigned from his Congress seat in 2019 after citing death risks.

Life

Wyllys, a seventh child from Alagoinhas, was born in Bahia, north-eastern Brazil. His mother was a washerwoman and his father was a car painter who was addicted to alcoholism. Wyllys attended a boarding school, giving him the opportunity to receive a higher education than the average boy in his neighborhood. Wyllys later moved to Salvador and finished his journalism degree at the Federal University of Bahia. He came to fame after being the finalist in Brazil's fourth season, Big Brother Brasil, in 2005. He was the first openly gay participant in the show, causing a lot of controversies amongst supporters and participants alike. Wyllys praised his win as having "high political sensitivity" -- I said I was a homosexual, and the program was still successful in a world where homophobic."

Wyllys was elected a federal MP in 2010 representing the Socialism and Freedom Party, garnering an average of 13,000 votes. His election was only possible despite the number of votes he received in 2010 through the so-called "liberation revolution," a political device that allows candidates who don't have a large number of votes to be elected by votes of another highly voted candidate of the same party. Chico Alencar, another member of Socialism and Liberty Party, who was one of the most popular in Rio de Janeiro, was involved in his election. Wyllys brought his LGBT activism to the forefront after occupying a seat in the Brazilian Congress. He began working on his political platform, which was primarily a movement for LGBT rights. In doing so, he met with respected Brazilian right-wing figures, including pastor Silas Malafaya, a popular televangelist and national president of the Assembly of God Churches, and Jair Bolsonaro, a congressman who later became Wyllys' nemesis in the Brazilian Congress. During President Dilma Roussef's impeachment vote, Wyllys came to the point of spitting at congressman Bolsonaro. Wyllys proposed three controversial pieces of legislation in Congress, including the prohibition of prostitution, the legalization and oversight of marijuana use, as well as government support for transgender teenagers and adults.

Wyllys' defense of minority rights and his very existence as a 'openly gay congressman and a human rights activist have made him a public enemy of Brazilian conservative political parties. Wyllys, who live in a world with such high incidences of homophobic violence as Brazil, began to suffer. These became more popular after his political rivals mounted a slanderous campaign against him by posting and posting pictures attributed to him on social media, including Facebook, depicting him as a paedophile outright. Among other incorrect remarks attributed to him was one that said that the Bible was "a joke" and that Christians and Bible followers were "clowns." This was widely distributed. Despite this, people in social medias also posted them, increasing the continuing hate campaign against Wyllys. He created a section on his official website where he debunks all of the quotes attributed to him in order to recover his image from the orchestrated campaign. Despite the fact that his public image had been tarnished by the scandalous campaign, Wyllys ran for congress again in 2014 and retained his seat in parliament with more than 100,000 votes, becoming the sixth most voted-for representative from Rio de Janeiro.

Brazilian independent filmmakers had planned to produce a documentary about Wyllys' political career and activism in 2015. "Enter os Homens de Bem" (Among Virtuous Men) was the documentary's title when it was first published in 2016. The documentary focuses on Brazil's political arena, including gay rights and LGBT rights, as well as Wyllys and his conservative critics. Wyllys was also included in the "Top 50 global celebrities with an outstanding commitment to diversity" list in the same year.

In the 2018 election, Wyllys was re-elected to a third term as deputy. However, the campaign took a toll on the campaign. Marielle Franco, a close friend, of Rio de Janeiro city councillor Marielle Franco, was fatally wounded in March 2018. Wyllys said in January 2019, just days before the swearing-in of the 56th Congress on February 1, that he would not return to Brazil due to suspected suicide threats and that he would not assume his position as congressman. He told the Folha de Só Paulo newspaper that he did not want to live four years under tight security surveillance. David Miranda will be his replacement in the Chamber of Deputies. President Bolsonaro reacted on Twitter by posting the word "great day" followed by a "thumbs-up" emoji shortly after learning of Wylly's ouster. Carlos Bolsonaro, his son, also tweeted, "Go with God and be joyful."

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