SAO GONCALO, Brazil: Looking resplendent in a bejewelled red ball gown, Brazilian beauty queen Eloa Rodrigues knows how lucky she is: in the world’s deadliest country for trans people, she is daring to live out her dreams.
The slender, striking 29-year-old from the Rio de Janeiro suburbs is leaving Sunday to represent Brazil at Miss International Queen in Thailand, the pageant considered the “Trans Miss Universe”.
She considers herself a fortunate “outlier,” given where she comes from: the poor, violent city of Sao Goncalo, across the bay from Rio, in the country that has set the record for…
