Blessed Cure - Softcover

Cesar; Mario

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908030542 ISBN 13: 9781908030542

Publisher: Soaring Penguin Press, 2022

Synopsis

Since he was a child, Acacio do Nascimento was a different boy from others. He rather playing with dolls to playing soccer, the hula hoop interested him more than cowboy pistols. Scared by the possibility of their son was a homosexual, Mara and Galdino submit Acacio since he was five years old to several treatments for him to become a normal boy like the others. In 1990 the World Health Organization (WHO) stopped considering homosexuality a disease. Based on this understanding, a 1999 resolution by the Brazilian Federal Council of Psychology prohibited professionals from applying therapies to try to change sexual orientation in Brazil. Even so, the so-called 'gay cure', time and again, comes into the spotlight due to the greed of those who aim to profit from ignorance and prejudice. Conservative groups want to subject perfectly healthy people to abusive treatments and, often, homosexuals themselves subordinate themselves to medieval methods to live up to the expectations of others. Blessed Cure narrates Acacio's life through the decades since the 60's. Each chapter shows the provocations of other children at school, the awakening of his sexuality as a teenager, the demands of his parents for him to fit in with the standards dictated by the majority, the beginning of his adult life, the first time he falls in love with another man, the persecution of the Brazilian military dictatorship against LGBTQ+ people, the prejudice in the workplace and the dilemma between following his most intimate instincts or going according to what society imposes and marrying a woman. Discover if Acacio will keep on living a heteronormative life he never chose for himself or if he's going to live his truth.

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About the Author

Mario Cesar is an awarded comic book's author from Brazil. He publishes comics since 2006 and he was one the first openly gay authors to address issues of sexual and gender diversity in Brazilian comics with the book Ciranda da Solidão (2013). He is also one of the creators and producers of POC CON, the first brazilian LGBTQ+ Comic Con.

Edition details

• Publisher: Soaring Penguin Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908030542
• ISBN 13: 9781908030542
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312