Brazilian LGBT Activist, Politician Attacked With Rock

A young LGBT activist and politician in Brazil was reportedly attacked, with a stone hurled at his head Wednesday by an unknown man in a moving car, Pink Star News reports.

Waldir Pires Bittencourt, 25, was campaigning in the streets of Macapa in Amapa, Brazil when a stone was allegedly thrown at him. In an interview with Vice (translated into English by Pink Star News), he says he was hit on the side of his forehead by a stone thrown from a moving car.

"You want to be a woman? Then you'll get it as a woman," Bittencourt says the attacker yelled at him.

The activist was unable to get the car's licenses plate number. He did take to Facebook to speak out on the attack, and posted a photo of himself, showing blood running down his face.

Bittencourt, who is campaigning to be a member of the House of Representatives in Brazil, says he is "not the first victim" of an anti-gay attack.

"Violence against LGBT people in our state is typical. I was not the first nor I will be the last as long as the state does not see this as a priority," he said. "I am not going to let it intimidate me as I have no time to be afraid. I will face whatever happens, and I will continue fighting."

In his Facebook post, Bitterncourt said, "We live in a homophobic and violent country. It is where people who defend individual freedoms like me may at any time suffer aggression."

The incident comes just over a week after it was reported than an openly gay teen boy was founded dead in Brazil.

Joao Antonio Donati was found dead earlier this month as a result of what is to believed to be an anti-gay attack. His body was found in a vacant lot in the city of Inhumas. Donati's neck was broken and his mouth was stuffed with paper.