In the sitting room of his eighth-floor Copacabana apartment, Jean Wyllys has hung a multicoloured portrait of one of his closest allies: the dragon-slaying Saint George. In Wyllys' native Brazil, George represents Ogun, the Yoruba god of war, politics and fire.

And Wyllys – Brazil's first openly gay MP and a man locked in conflict with the country's powerful religious right – needs all the support he can get.

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