Maguela taught a class on homosexuality in 1992: ‘It’s not a disease’

Maguela also mentioned how she would react if her son, then five years old, saw two men kissing. He said: “If I see a man kissing another, and he asks me: Father, what is this, a man kissing another? I say: They are both homosexuals. That’s all.”

Presenter Liao Lobo, who declared himself gay in 1984 on television, was present on the program and was mentioned by Maguela. “When God puts one of His children on earth, we all have a destiny. The Wolf Lion already had that destiny. He won’t say he started when he was old. He started when he was young. He already had a way. God created him for it. We can’t be against him.”

Six days ago, Junior Ahzura reposted the excerpt in which his father commented on the topic, and the video spread again on social media. The son that Maguela mentions in the program is precisely Azzurra. In the comment on the post, Azura expresses her love for her father. “Proud to have a father who always accepts and respects me! My father is more than just a national hero!” Watch below:

Maguela’s difficult path and successful career

Maguela became interested in boxing while still in Aracaju, where he watched fights between Eder Joffre and Muhammad Ali. When he moved to São Paulo at the age of 14 to work as a construction assistant, sports were a distant reality. In the first years he lived in the capital, São Paulo, Maguela declared that he became hungry and lived in an abandoned truck until the owner of the car kicked him out. “I slept leaning against the pole,” he revealed in the documentary Maguela, released in 1987.