Speculation arose at the time: does Abel dream of the national team? Of course he dreams. Anyone who doesn’t dream is making a mistake. And do you know who else dreams of the national team? An immense part of Brazil that saw its greatest symbol stolen by something that cannot be proud of.
Hopscotch became synonymous with reactionaryism. From a right with fascist ambitions. From those who spat on the tragedy of the pandemic and think that Brazil’s problem is a lack of testosterone. From those who defend “gay cure” while sexualizing their own daughters. From those who publish the address of a raped child and weigh black people in arrobas.
Not surprisingly, it became the official uniform of the January 8th coup acts. The number one choice of those who literally defecated on democratic institutions.
The team’s shirt had been stolen. Not only because of everything nasty that the CBF represents, but because of people who started to believe they were the owners of Brazil, superior to everyone who thought differently, who just wanted to be what they are, in peace.
On Saturday, these people needed to see a northeastern gay drag queen, a former MST settler, proudly wear our colors. Alongside the biggest pop icon in the world, who at 65 continues to rub her sexual and thought freedom in the face of the society that has tried to control women since the world was the world. In front of 1.6 million people — mostly LGBT — in the south of Rio and live, on the largest open TV channel in Latin America.
It’s a shame that the rescue of our colors needs to go through the hands of a foreign woman. That someone needs to come from outside to shock “the good family” and cause such a furore. Ludmilla had already started this movement last year. Pabllo and Anitta would also have the strength to generate waves. Madonna, however, is on another level. Madonna moves tectonic plates. Madonna cannot be ignored.
