Nov 30, 2021
Janaína Dutra's 61st Birthday
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Today’s Doodle celebrates Brazilian social activist and lawyer Janaína Dutra, a leader of the Brazilian LGBTQIA+ movement who is widely considered the nation’s first transgender person to practice law.
Janaína Dutra was born on this day in 1960 in the Canindé district of Brazil’s northern Ceará state. By age 14, she began facing homophobic discrimination, but the support of her large family never faltered. She followed her sister to Fortaleza, where Dutra took her first steps toward a life devoted to advocating for the LGBTQIA+ community. In 1986, Dutra earned her law degree from the University of Fortaleza, making history as the first transgender graduate accepted as a member of the Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (Brazilian National Bar Association).
Throughout the 1980s, Dutra furthered her career by developing Brazil’s first HIV prevention campaign that focused on the transgender community in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. Dutra also contributed to the foundation of the Grupo de Resistência Asa Branca (White Wing Resistance Group) and served as the first president of the Associação de Travestis do Ceará (ATRAC - Ceará Transvestites’ Association)—a landmark non-profit organization focused on developing social and legal support for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Known to always carry a copy of an anti-homophobia law passed by her hometown, Dutra spent a lifetime attending conferences, seminars, and round tables to advocate for equality. In 2011, the Janaína Dutra LGBT Reference Center was founded in Fortaleza, which carries on Dutra’s mission by protecting human rights for members of the LGBTQIA+ community to this day.
O Doodle de hoje homenageia a ativista social e advogada brasileira Janaína Dutra, uma líder do movimento LGBTQIA + brasileiro, considerada a primeira pessoa trans do país a exercer essa profissão.
Janaína Dutra nasceu neste dia, em 1960, no distrito de Canindé, no norte do estado do Ceará. Aos catorze anos de idade, ela começou a enfrentar a discriminação homofóbica, mas contou com grande apoio de sua família. Ela acompanhou sua irmã até Fortaleza, onde deu os primeiros passos em direção a uma vida dedicada à defesa da comunidade LGBTQIA +. Em 1986 ela se formou em Direito pela Universidade de Fortaleza, fazendo história como a primeira transexual graduada aceita como membro da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB).
Ao longo da década de 1980, Janaína aprofundou sua carreira desenvolvendo, em colaboração com o Ministério da Saúde, a primeira campanha de prevenção do HIV no Brasil com foco na comunidade transgênera. Também contribuiu para a fundação do Grupo de Resistência Asa Branca e foi a primeira presidente da Associação de Travestis do Ceará (ATRAC) - uma importante organização sem fins lucrativos com foco em desenvolver suporte social e jurídico para a comunidade LGBTQIA +.
Conhecida por sempre levar consigo uma cópia da lei anti-homofobia aprovada por sua cidade natal, Janaína passou a vida inteira participando de conferências, seminários e mesas redondas para defender a igualdade. Em 2011, foi fundado em Fortaleza o Centro de Referência LGBT Janaína Dutra, que cumpre a missão de proteção dos direitos humanos de integrantes da comunidade LGBTQIA + até os dias de hoje.
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