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Watch what happens when a gay couple hold hands at a soccer match in Portugal
After a video of a gay couple holding hands in Lisbon became the most watched LGBTI YouTube video in Portugal, Lorenzo and Pedro decided to repeat in the social experiment ‘homophobic’ north of the country.
The couple were warned that reactions would be very different in ‘homophobic’ Oporto and they could even be killed.
Lorenzo and Pedro immediately accepted the challenge.
‘The goal was to see how people react in this areas of the country when they see a gay couple holding hands and exchanging some affections‘ they told Gay Star News.
‘We were two days in various areas of Oporto: from the iconic tourist areas, through the most “dangerous” places of the city.
‘We even went to the Dragon Stadium in a day of a soccer game, which is known to be not acceptive of gay couples.’
During their two days in Oporto, they kissed at an outdoor restaurant sat on each other’s lap on a bench, but amazingly they did not receive a single negative response.
‘Contrary to popular opinion, we felt not only comfortable and safe in Oporto, but accepted as we did Lisbon,’ they say in the video.
‘Once again, we got loads of looks. Sometimes, people look will, comment or even laugh a little at when seeing something new and different. And this is completely normal in the early days of acceptance.’
They added: ‘Our hope is that videos like this will lose their and walk with pride one knowing that they’re safe and accepted.’
Similar experiments in Moscow, Kiev and Jerusalem, however, have had less happy results. The couples in those cities were bombarded with anti-gay slurs and one ended in a Neo-Nazi attack.
Watch the video below:
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