title: O discurso de ódio contra as minorias sexuais e os limites da liberdade de expressão no Brasil
abstract: Violence towards ethnic, religious, national or sexual minorities takes on diverse forms and it is the role of law to identify and suppress them. Such a role enables the actual enforcement of antidiscrimination rights, which are understood as a contemporary prerogative within democratic states. Among the various forms violence can assume, hate speech stands out: a way of assaulting minorities that remains unnoticed, for it does not include physical aggression towards the victim. Although not obv